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The Japanese Covered Bridge, Hoi An
Hoi AnThe Japanese Covered Bridge
Playa de los Muertos below the green hills, Puerto Vallarta
Puerto VallartaPlaya de los Muertos below the green hills

Photos: Hoi An by François Guerraz, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Puerto Vallarta by RL0919, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Hoi An 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 Hoi An for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • shopping

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

Choose Puerto Vallarta for

  • nightlife
  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Hoi An 72, Puerto Vallarta 85: Puerto Vallarta leads by 13 points.
Food & drink. Hoi An 68, Puerto Vallarta 62: Hoi An leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Hoi An 66, Puerto Vallarta 28: Hoi An leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Hoi An 28, Puerto Vallarta 66: Puerto Vallarta leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hoi An 63, Puerto Vallarta 76: Puerto Vallarta leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Hoi An 50, Puerto Vallarta 55: Puerto Vallarta leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Hoi An 58, Puerto Vallarta 65: Puerto Vallarta leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Hoi An 48, Puerto Vallarta 45: Hoi An leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Hoi An 57, Puerto Vallarta 42: Hoi An leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Hoi An 88, Puerto Vallarta 60: Hoi An leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hoi An 24, Puerto Vallarta 32: Puerto Vallarta leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hoi An 65, Puerto Vallarta 52: Hoi An leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hoi An and Puerto Vallarta.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Hoi An
57match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

Puerto Vallarta
56match

Wins on nightlife 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.

Hoi An in July

35 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 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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Hoi AnPuerto 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. Hoi An: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (23.5 km from centre). Puerto Vallarta: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureHoi AnPuerto Vallarta
Official languageVietnameseSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyDong (VND)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-6
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114911
Elevation13 m101 m
Main airportDa Nang International Airport (DAD)23 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)5 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-9 days

By the numbers

MeasureHoi AnPuerto Vallarta
City population121,716224,166
People per km²-4,311
Museums within 10 km52
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.