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The junk Duk Ling in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong
Hong KongThe junk Duk Ling in Victoria Harbour
Playa de los Muertos below the green hills, Puerto Vallarta
Puerto VallartaPlaya de los Muertos below the green hills

Photos: Hong Kong by LN9267, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Puerto Vallarta by RL0919, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Hong Kong 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 Hong Kong for

  • getting around
  • shopping
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Puerto Vallarta for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • wellness

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. Hong Kong 50, Puerto Vallarta 85: Puerto Vallarta leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Hong Kong 90, Puerto Vallarta 62: Hong Kong leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Hong Kong 60, Puerto Vallarta 28: Hong Kong leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Hong Kong 68, Puerto Vallarta 66: Hong Kong leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hong Kong 80, Puerto Vallarta 76: Hong Kong leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Hong Kong 68, Puerto Vallarta 55: Hong Kong leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Hong Kong 75, Puerto Vallarta 65: Hong Kong leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Hong Kong 97, Puerto Vallarta 45: Hong Kong leads by 52 points.
Shopping & style. Hong Kong 88, Puerto Vallarta 42: Hong Kong leads by 46 points.
Affordability. Hong Kong 27, Puerto Vallarta 60: Puerto Vallarta leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hong Kong 55, Puerto Vallarta 32: Hong Kong leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hong Kong 42, Puerto Vallarta 52: Puerto Vallarta leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hong Kong and Puerto Vallarta.

Your match

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

Hong Kong
Best match
67match

Wins on getting around and shopping with your weighting.

Puerto Vallarta
56match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Hong Kong in July

31 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
381 mmrain in the month
7 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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Hong KongPuerto 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. Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre). Puerto Vallarta: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureHong KongPuerto Vallarta
Official languageStandard ChineseSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyHong Kong Dollar (HKD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsG220 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-6
Emergency number999911
Elevation7 m101 m
Main airportHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre148 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)5 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureHong KongPuerto Vallarta
City population7,413,070224,166
People per km²-4,311
Museums within 10 km392
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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). 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.