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Flinders Street Station, Melbourne
MelbourneFlinders Street Station
The beach and the bay with the mountains behind, Nuevo Vallarta
Nuevo VallartaThe beach and the bay with the mountains behind

Photos: Melbourne by Medelam, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Nuevo Vallarta by Harpqueen, Public domain.

Melbourne 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 Melbourne for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Melbourne’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. Melbourne 50, Nuevo Vallarta 84: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 34 points.
Food & drink. Melbourne 75, Nuevo Vallarta 40: Melbourne leads by 35 points.
Culture & sights. Melbourne 57, Nuevo Vallarta 6: Melbourne leads by 51 points.
Nightlife. Melbourne 75, Nuevo Vallarta 16: Melbourne leads by 59 points.
Nature & outdoors. Melbourne 70, Nuevo Vallarta 75: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Melbourne 62, Nuevo Vallarta 58: Melbourne leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Melbourne and Nuevo Vallarta are level on 73.
Getting around. Melbourne 76, Nuevo Vallarta 25: Melbourne leads by 51 points.
Shopping & style. Melbourne 70, Nuevo Vallarta 22: Melbourne leads by 48 points.
Affordability. Melbourne 31, Nuevo Vallarta 45: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Melbourne 72, Nuevo Vallarta 18: Melbourne leads by 54 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Melbourne 54, Nuevo Vallarta 55: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 1 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Melbourne and Nuevo Vallarta.

Your match

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

Melbourne
Best match
64match

Wins on nightlife 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.

Melbourne in July

14 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
46 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
10 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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MelbourneNuevo 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. Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre). Nuevo Vallarta: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureMelbourneNuevo Vallarta
Official languageEnglishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number000911
Elevation31 m3 m
Main airportMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre69 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)4 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureMelbourneNuevo Vallarta
City population5,350,7051,301
People per km²535-
Museums within 10 km430
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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. 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. 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. 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.