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The Hassan II Mosque and its minaret, Casablanca
CasablancaThe Hassan II Mosque and its minaret
The Fortaleza San Felipe, Puerto Plata
Puerto PlataThe Fortaleza San Felipe

Photos: Casablanca by Samir Bakkah, Pexels License; Puerto Plata by CareAhLine, CC0.

Casablanca or Puerto Plata?

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 Casablanca for

  • food and drink
  • shopping
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Puerto Plata for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Plata’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. Casablanca 50, Puerto Plata 80: Puerto Plata leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Casablanca 60, Puerto Plata 40: Casablanca leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Casablanca 52, Puerto Plata 35: Casablanca leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Casablanca 44, Puerto Plata 38: Casablanca leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Casablanca 33, Puerto Plata 68: Puerto Plata leads by 35 points.
Day trips. Casablanca 55, Puerto Plata 48: Casablanca leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Casablanca 38, Puerto Plata 57: Puerto Plata leads by 19 points.
Getting around. Casablanca 42, Puerto Plata 30: Casablanca leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Casablanca 50, Puerto Plata 30: Casablanca leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Casablanca 68, Puerto Plata 64: Casablanca leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Casablanca 38, Puerto Plata 18: Casablanca leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Casablanca 52, Puerto Plata 35: Casablanca leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Casablanca and Puerto Plata.

Your match

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

Casablanca
Best match
49match

Wins on food and drink and shopping with your weighting.

Puerto Plata
45match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Casablanca in July

26 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
22 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Puerto Plata in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
67 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °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

Puerto Plata has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Casablanca: 1991-2020 normals, Casablanca (5.6 km from centre). Puerto Plata: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Puerto Plata (15.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCasablancaPuerto Plata
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightSpanish
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Dominican Peso (DOP)
SocketsCE50 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC-4
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15911
Elevation115 m34 m
Main airportMohammed V International Airport (CMN)26 km from centre112 non-stop destinationsGregorio Luperon International Airport (POP)13 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureCasablancaPuerto Plata
City population3,215,935-
People per km²8,375-
Museums within 10 km31
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 months

Where else could you go?

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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). 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.