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The cathedral on Plaza de Bolivar, Bogota
BogotaThe cathedral on Plaza de Bolivar
The main beach with the green hills behind, Sayulita
SayulitaThe main beach with the green hills behind

Photos: Bogota by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Sayulita by Luisalvaz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bogota or Sayulita?

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
  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife

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

Choose Sayulita for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Sayulita’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, Sayulita 80: Sayulita leads by 75 points.
Food & drink. Bogota 66, Sayulita 42: Bogota leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Bogota 68, Sayulita 7: Bogota leads by 61 points.
Nightlife. Bogota 72, Sayulita 33: Bogota leads by 39 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bogota 64, Sayulita 72: Sayulita leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Bogota 52, Sayulita 42: Bogota leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Bogota 45, Sayulita 42: Bogota leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Bogota 36, Sayulita 48: Sayulita leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Bogota 52, Sayulita 33: Bogota leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Bogota 77, Sayulita 45: Bogota leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bogota 64, Sayulita 12: Bogota leads by 52 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bogota 28, Sayulita 58: Sayulita leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bogota and Sayulita.

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 live music and the arts with your weighting.

Sayulita
43match

Wins on beaches and wellness 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

Sayulita in July

29 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
342 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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BogotaSayulita

Where the figures come from

Sayulita 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). Sayulita: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureBogotaSayulita
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 m2 m
Main airportEl Dorado International Airport (BOG)13 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)29 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year19 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBogotaSayulita
City population8,034,6493,390
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. 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.