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The Santa Cruz Cathedral Basilica in Fort Kochi, Kochi
KochiThe Santa Cruz Cathedral Basilica in Fort Kochi
Playa de los Muertos below the green hills, Puerto Vallarta
Puerto VallartaPlaya de los Muertos below the green hills

Photos: Kochi by Vis M, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Puerto Vallarta by RL0919, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Kochi 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 Kochi for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • wellness

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

Choose Puerto Vallarta for

  • nightlife
  • beaches
  • 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. Kochi 38, Puerto Vallarta 85: Puerto Vallarta leads by 47 points.
Food & drink. Kochi 66, Puerto Vallarta 62: Kochi leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Kochi 62, Puerto Vallarta 28: Kochi leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Kochi 18, Puerto Vallarta 66: Puerto Vallarta leads by 48 points.
Nature & outdoors. Kochi 55, Puerto Vallarta 76: Puerto Vallarta leads by 21 points.
Day trips. Kochi 52, Puerto Vallarta 55: Puerto Vallarta leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Kochi 40, Puerto Vallarta 65: Puerto Vallarta leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Kochi 44, Puerto Vallarta 45: Puerto Vallarta leads by 1 points.
Shopping & style. Kochi 45, Puerto Vallarta 42: Kochi leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Kochi 88, Puerto Vallarta 60: Kochi leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Kochi 40, Puerto Vallarta 32: Kochi leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Kochi 70, Puerto Vallarta 52: Kochi leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Kochi and Puerto Vallarta.

Your match

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

Kochi
52match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

Puerto Vallarta
Best match
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.

Kochi in July

27 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
439 mmrain in the month
27 °Csea
13 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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KochiPuerto Vallarta

Where the figures come from

Kochi 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.

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. Kochi: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Puerto Vallarta: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureKochiPuerto 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
Elevation0 m101 m
Main airportCochin International Airport (COK)24 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)5 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-9 days

By the numbers

MeasureKochiPuerto Vallarta
City population677,381224,166
People per km²7,1384,311
Museums within 10 km42
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 months

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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). 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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.