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The Massachusetts State House, Boston
BostonThe Massachusetts State House
The beach and the bay with the mountains behind, Nuevo Vallarta
Nuevo VallartaThe beach and the bay with the mountains behind

Photos: Boston by Ajay Suresh, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Nuevo Vallarta by Harpqueen, Public domain.

Boston 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 Boston for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

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

Choose Nuevo Vallarta for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • 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. Boston 35, Nuevo Vallarta 84: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 49 points.
Food & drink. Boston 64, Nuevo Vallarta 40: Boston leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Boston 72, Nuevo Vallarta 6: Boston leads by 66 points.
Nightlife. Boston 47, Nuevo Vallarta 16: Boston leads by 31 points.
Nature & outdoors. Boston 60, Nuevo Vallarta 75: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Boston 72, Nuevo Vallarta 58: Boston leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Boston 72, Nuevo Vallarta 73: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Boston 70, Nuevo Vallarta 25: Boston leads by 45 points.
Shopping & style. Boston 55, Nuevo Vallarta 22: Boston leads by 33 points.
Affordability. Boston 18, Nuevo Vallarta 45: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Boston 72, Nuevo Vallarta 18: Boston leads by 54 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Boston 30, Nuevo Vallarta 55: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Boston and Nuevo Vallarta.

Your match

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

Boston
Best match
56match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Nuevo Vallarta
43match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Boston in July

28 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
82 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
15 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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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. Boston: 1991-2020 normals, Boston Logan International (3.5 km from centre). Nuevo Vallarta: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureBostonNuevo Vallarta
Official language-Spanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number911911
Elevation43 m3 m
Main airportBoston Logan International Airport (BOS)4 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)4 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBostonNuevo Vallarta
City population675,6471,301
People per km²2,910-
Museums within 10 km510
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. 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.