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Colourful shopfronts in the city centre, Cork
CorkColourful shopfronts in the city centre
Playa de los Muertos below the green hills, Puerto Vallarta
Puerto VallartaPlaya de los Muertos below the green hills

Photos: Cork by Selim Karadayı, Pexels License; Puerto Vallarta by RL0919, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cork 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 Cork for

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Puerto Vallarta for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • prices

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. Cork 25, Puerto Vallarta 85: Puerto Vallarta leads by 60 points.
Food & drink. Cork 58, Puerto Vallarta 62: Puerto Vallarta leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Cork 40, Puerto Vallarta 28: Cork leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Cork 40, Puerto Vallarta 66: Puerto Vallarta leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cork 62, Puerto Vallarta 76: Puerto Vallarta leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Cork 68, Puerto Vallarta 55: Cork leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Cork 50, Puerto Vallarta 65: Puerto Vallarta leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Cork 58, Puerto Vallarta 45: Cork leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Cork 40, Puerto Vallarta 42: Puerto Vallarta leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Cork 33, Puerto Vallarta 60: Puerto Vallarta leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cork 45, Puerto Vallarta 32: Cork leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cork 22, Puerto Vallarta 52: Puerto Vallarta leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cork and Puerto Vallarta.

Your match

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

Cork
45match

Wins on day trips and getting around with your weighting.

Puerto Vallarta
Best match
56match

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

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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CorkPuerto 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.

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

Before you go

MeasureCorkPuerto 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 m101 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)5 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkPuerto Vallarta
City population222,333224,166
People per km²5,9614,311
Museums within 10 km52
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. 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.