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Hobart below kunanyi/Mount Wellington, Hobart
HobartHobart below kunanyi/Mount Wellington
The main beach with the green hills behind, Sayulita
SayulitaThe main beach with the green hills behind

Photos: Hobart by Gary Houston, CC0; Sayulita by Luisalvaz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Hobart or Sayulita?

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 Hobart for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

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

Choose Sayulita for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Sayulita’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. Hobart 30, Sayulita 80: Sayulita leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Hobart 60, Sayulita 42: Hobart leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Hobart 56, Sayulita 7: Hobart leads by 49 points.
Nightlife. Hobart 30, Sayulita 33: Sayulita leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hobart 85, Sayulita 72: Hobart leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Hobart 60, Sayulita 42: Hobart leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Hobart 56, Sayulita 42: Hobart leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Hobart 45, Sayulita 48: Sayulita leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Hobart 38, Sayulita 33: Hobart leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Hobart 35, Sayulita 45: Sayulita leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hobart 45, Sayulita 12: Hobart leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hobart 40, Sayulita 58: Sayulita leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hobart and Sayulita.

Your match

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

Hobart
Best match
48match

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

Sayulita
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.

Hobart in July

13 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
42 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
13 °Csea
9 hdaylight a day

Sayulita in July

29 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
342 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

Sayulita 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. Hobart: 1991-2020 normals, Hobart (2.3 km from centre). Sayulita: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureHobartSayulita
Official languageEnglishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number000911
Elevation54 m2 m
Main airportHobart International Airport (HBA)17 km from centre9 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)29 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureHobartSayulita
City population197,4513,390
People per km²116-
Museums within 10 km80
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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). 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. 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.