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The cathedral on Plaza de Bolivar, Bogota
BogotaThe cathedral on Plaza de Bolivar
The beach and the bay with the mountains behind, Nuevo Vallarta
Nuevo VallartaThe beach and the bay with the mountains behind

Photos: Bogota by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Nuevo Vallarta by Harpqueen, Public domain.

Bogota or Nuevo Vallarta?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Bogota for

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Bogota’s own page.

Choose Nuevo Vallarta for

  • beaches
  • families
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Nuevo Vallarta’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Bogota 5, Nuevo Vallarta 84: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 79 points.
Food & drink. Bogota 66, Nuevo Vallarta 40: Bogota leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Bogota 68, Nuevo Vallarta 6: Bogota leads by 62 points.
Nightlife. Bogota 72, Nuevo Vallarta 16: Bogota leads by 56 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bogota 64, Nuevo Vallarta 75: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Bogota 52, Nuevo Vallarta 58: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Bogota 45, Nuevo Vallarta 73: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Bogota 36, Nuevo Vallarta 25: Bogota leads by 11 points.
Shopping & style. Bogota 52, Nuevo Vallarta 22: Bogota leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Bogota 77, Nuevo Vallarta 45: Bogota leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bogota 64, Nuevo Vallarta 18: Bogota leads by 46 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bogota 28, Nuevo Vallarta 55: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 27 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bogota and Nuevo Vallarta.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Bogota
Best match
52match

Wins on culture and sights and nightlife with your weighting.

Nuevo Vallarta
43match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Bogota in July

17 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
49 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
12 hdaylight a day

Nuevo Vallarta in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
206 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BogotaNuevo Vallarta

Where the figures come from

Nuevo Vallarta has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bogota: 1991-2020 normals, Bogota / Eldorado (14.1 km from centre). Nuevo Vallarta: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureBogotaNuevo Vallarta
Official languageSpanishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyColombian Peso (COP)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-6
Emergency number123911
Elevation2,582 m3 m
Main airportEl Dorado International Airport (BOG)13 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)4 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year19 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBogotaNuevo Vallarta
City population8,034,6491,301
People per km²5,092-
Museums within 10 km300
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.