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Big Ben and Westminster Bridge, London
LondonBig Ben and Westminster Bridge
The beach and the bay with the mountains behind, Nuevo Vallarta
Nuevo VallartaThe beach and the bay with the mountains behind

Photos: London by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Nuevo Vallarta by Harpqueen, Public domain.

London or Nuevo 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 London for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • shopping

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

Choose Nuevo Vallarta for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Nuevo 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. London 25, Nuevo Vallarta 84: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 59 points.
Food & drink. London 84, Nuevo Vallarta 40: London leads by 44 points.
Culture & sights. London 94, Nuevo Vallarta 6: London leads by 88 points.
Nightlife. London 88, Nuevo Vallarta 16: London leads by 72 points.
Nature & outdoors. London 57, Nuevo Vallarta 75: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 18 points.
Day trips. London 90, Nuevo Vallarta 58: London leads by 32 points.
Good for families. London 82, Nuevo Vallarta 73: London leads by 9 points.
Getting around. London 85, Nuevo Vallarta 25: London leads by 60 points.
Shopping & style. London 95, Nuevo Vallarta 22: London leads by 73 points.
Affordability. London 15, Nuevo Vallarta 45: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. London 98, Nuevo Vallarta 18: London leads by 80 points.
Wellness & relaxation. London 40, Nuevo Vallarta 55: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: London and Nuevo Vallarta.

Your match

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

London
Best match
71match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Nuevo Vallarta
43match

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.

London in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
46 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Nuevo Vallarta in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
206 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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LondonNuevo Vallarta

Where the figures come from

Nuevo 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. London: 1992-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, London Weather Centre (1.3 km from centre). Nuevo Vallarta: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureLondonNuevo Vallarta
Official languageEnglishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation4 m3 m
Main airportLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre224 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)4 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureLondonNuevo Vallarta
City population8,799,7281,301
People per km²5,598-
Museums within 10 km2160
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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. 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.