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Colourful shopfronts in the city centre, Cork
CorkColourful shopfronts in the city centre
The beach and the bay with the mountains behind, Nuevo Vallarta
Nuevo VallartaThe beach and the bay with the mountains behind

Photos: Cork by Selim Karadayı, Pexels License; Nuevo Vallarta by Harpqueen, Public domain.

Cork 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 Cork for

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

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

Choose Nuevo Vallarta for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • families

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. Cork 25, Nuevo Vallarta 84: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 59 points.
Food & drink. Cork 58, Nuevo Vallarta 40: Cork leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Cork 40, Nuevo Vallarta 6: Cork leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Cork 40, Nuevo Vallarta 16: Cork leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cork 62, Nuevo Vallarta 75: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Cork 68, Nuevo Vallarta 58: Cork leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Cork 50, Nuevo Vallarta 73: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Cork 58, Nuevo Vallarta 25: Cork leads by 33 points.
Shopping & style. Cork 40, Nuevo Vallarta 22: Cork leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Cork 33, Nuevo Vallarta 45: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cork 45, Nuevo Vallarta 18: Cork leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cork 22, Nuevo Vallarta 55: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 33 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cork and Nuevo Vallarta.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Cork
45match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

Nuevo Vallarta
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.

Cork in July

19 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
86 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
16 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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CorkNuevo Vallarta

Where the figures come from

Cork's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

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. Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre). Nuevo Vallarta: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureCorkNuevo Vallarta
Official languageEnglish, IrishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m3 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)4 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkNuevo Vallarta
City population222,3331,301
People per km²5,961-
Museums within 10 km50
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). 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. 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. 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.