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The cathedral from the Torre Tavira, Cadiz
CadizThe cathedral from the Torre Tavira
Playa de los Muertos below the green hills, Puerto Vallarta
Puerto VallartaPlaya de los Muertos below the green hills

Photos: Cadiz by Bronch, CC BY-SA 3.0 ES, cropped; Puerto Vallarta by RL0919, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cadiz or Puerto 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 Cadiz for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • getting around

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

Choose Puerto Vallarta for

  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto 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. Cadiz 80, Puerto Vallarta 85: Puerto Vallarta leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Cadiz 68, Puerto Vallarta 62: Cadiz leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Cadiz 62, Puerto Vallarta 28: Cadiz leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Cadiz 45, Puerto Vallarta 66: Puerto Vallarta leads by 21 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cadiz 66, Puerto Vallarta 76: Puerto Vallarta leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Cadiz 80, Puerto Vallarta 55: Cadiz leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Cadiz 60, Puerto Vallarta 65: Puerto Vallarta leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Cadiz 70, Puerto Vallarta 45: Cadiz leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Cadiz 35, Puerto Vallarta 42: Puerto Vallarta leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Cadiz 58, Puerto Vallarta 60: Puerto Vallarta leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cadiz 52, Puerto Vallarta 32: Cadiz leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cadiz 42, Puerto Vallarta 52: Puerto Vallarta leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cadiz and Puerto Vallarta.

Your match

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

Cadiz
Best match
60match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

Puerto Vallarta
56match

Wins on nightlife and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Cadiz in July

28 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
23 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Puerto Vallarta in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
209 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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CadizPuerto Vallarta

Where the figures come from

Puerto 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. Cadiz: 1991-2020 normals, Cadiz Bay / Puntales (5.2 km from centre). Puerto Vallarta: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureCadizPuerto Vallarta
Official languageSpanishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation11 m101 m
Main airportJerez Airport (XRY)31 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)5 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureCadizPuerto Vallarta
City population109,950224,166
People per km²9,0874,311
Museums within 10 km112
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months12 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.