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The Outback, with the Tenmile Range in the distance, Keystone
KeystoneThe Outback, with the Tenmile Range in the distance
The Fortaleza San Felipe, Puerto Plata
Puerto PlataThe Fortaleza San Felipe

Photos: Keystone by Rudi Riet, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Puerto Plata by CareAhLine, CC0.

Keystone or Puerto Plata?

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 Keystone for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • families

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

Choose Puerto Plata for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Plata’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. Keystone 5, Puerto Plata 80: Puerto Plata leads by 75 points.
Food & drink. Keystone 27, Puerto Plata 40: Puerto Plata leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Keystone 7, Puerto Plata 35: Puerto Plata leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Keystone 12, Puerto Plata 38: Puerto Plata leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Keystone 93, Puerto Plata 68: Keystone leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Keystone 55, Puerto Plata 48: Keystone leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Keystone 66, Puerto Plata 57: Keystone leads by 9 points.
Getting around. Keystone 50, Puerto Plata 30: Keystone leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Keystone 22, Puerto Plata 30: Puerto Plata leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Keystone 12, Puerto Plata 64: Puerto Plata leads by 52 points.
Live music & performing arts. Keystone 22, Puerto Plata 18: Keystone leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Keystone 32, Puerto Plata 35: Puerto Plata leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Keystone and Puerto Plata.

Your match

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

Keystone
34match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around with your weighting.

Puerto Plata
Best match
45match

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.

Keystone in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Puerto Plata in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
67 mmrain in the month
28 °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

Keystone's temperatures are measured 51 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Keystone's station stands 232 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Keystone 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 Plata 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Keystone: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (50.8 km from centre). Puerto Plata: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Puerto Plata (15.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKeystonePuerto Plata
Official language-Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Dominican Peso (DOP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-4
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,796 m34 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)116 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsGregorio Luperon International Airport (POP)13 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureKeystonePuerto Plata
City population1,369-
People per km²13-
Museums within 10 km01
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.