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Patrika Gate, Jaipur
JaipurPatrika Gate
Playa de los Muertos below the green hills, Puerto Vallarta
Puerto VallartaPlaya de los Muertos below the green hills

Photos: Jaipur by Chainwit., CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Puerto Vallarta by RL0919, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Jaipur 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 Jaipur for

  • culture and sights
  • shopping
  • prices

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

Choose Puerto Vallarta for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • families

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. Jaipur 3, Puerto Vallarta 85: Puerto Vallarta leads by 82 points.
Food & drink. Jaipur 66, Puerto Vallarta 62: Jaipur leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Jaipur 80, Puerto Vallarta 28: Jaipur leads by 52 points.
Nightlife. Jaipur 25, Puerto Vallarta 66: Puerto Vallarta leads by 41 points.
Nature & outdoors. Jaipur 38, Puerto Vallarta 76: Puerto Vallarta leads by 38 points.
Day trips. Jaipur and Puerto Vallarta are level on 55.
Good for families. Jaipur 25, Puerto Vallarta 65: Puerto Vallarta leads by 40 points.
Getting around. Jaipur 30, Puerto Vallarta 45: Puerto Vallarta leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Jaipur 74, Puerto Vallarta 42: Jaipur leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Jaipur 88, Puerto Vallarta 60: Jaipur leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Jaipur 35, Puerto Vallarta 32: Jaipur leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Jaipur 28, Puerto Vallarta 52: Puerto Vallarta leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Jaipur and Puerto Vallarta.

Your match

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

Jaipur
46match

Wins on culture and sights and shopping with your weighting.

Puerto Vallarta
Best match
56match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Jaipur in July

36 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
195 mmrain in the month
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Puerto Vallarta in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
209 mmrain in the month
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

Jaipur has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

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. Jaipur: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Jaipur / Sanganer (11.1 km from centre). Puerto Vallarta: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureJaipurPuerto Vallarta
Official languageHindi, EnglishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyIndian Rupee (INR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCM230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+5:30UTC-6
Emergency number108 or 112911
Elevation431 m101 m
Main airportJaipur International Airport (JAI)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)5 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-9 days

By the numbers

MeasureJaipurPuerto Vallarta
City population3,073,350224,166
People per km²-4,311
Museums within 10 km62
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.