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Flinders Street Station, Melbourne
MelbourneFlinders Street Station
The main beach with the green hills behind, Sayulita
SayulitaThe main beach with the green hills behind

Photos: Melbourne by Medelam, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Sayulita by Luisalvaz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Melbourne or Sayulita?

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

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

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

Choose Sayulita for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Sayulita’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, Sayulita 80: Sayulita leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Melbourne 75, Sayulita 42: Melbourne leads by 33 points.
Culture & sights. Melbourne 57, Sayulita 7: Melbourne leads by 50 points.
Nightlife. Melbourne 75, Sayulita 33: Melbourne leads by 42 points.
Nature & outdoors. Melbourne 70, Sayulita 72: Sayulita leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Melbourne 62, Sayulita 42: Melbourne leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Melbourne 73, Sayulita 42: Melbourne leads by 31 points.
Getting around. Melbourne 76, Sayulita 48: Melbourne leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Melbourne 70, Sayulita 33: Melbourne leads by 37 points.
Affordability. Melbourne 31, Sayulita 45: Sayulita leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Melbourne 72, Sayulita 12: Melbourne leads by 60 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Melbourne 54, Sayulita 58: Sayulita leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Melbourne and Sayulita.

Your match

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

Melbourne
Best match
64match

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

Sayulita
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

Sayulita in July

29 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
342 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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Where the figures come from

Sayulita 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). Sayulita: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureMelbourneSayulita
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 m2 m
Main airportMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre69 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)29 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureMelbourneSayulita
City population5,350,7053,390
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. 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.