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The Gateway of India under a blue sky, Mumbai
MumbaiThe Gateway of India under a blue sky
Playa de los Muertos below the green hills, Puerto Vallarta
Puerto VallartaPlaya de los Muertos below the green hills

Photos: Mumbai by Shubam Bhasin, Pexels License; Puerto Vallarta by RL0919, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Mumbai 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 Mumbai for

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

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

Choose Puerto Vallarta for

  • beaches
  • families
  • wellness

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. Mumbai 18, Puerto Vallarta 85: Puerto Vallarta leads by 67 points.
Food & drink. Mumbai 82, Puerto Vallarta 62: Mumbai leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Mumbai 70, Puerto Vallarta 28: Mumbai leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Mumbai 52, Puerto Vallarta 66: Puerto Vallarta leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Mumbai 55, Puerto Vallarta 76: Puerto Vallarta leads by 21 points.
Day trips. Mumbai 48, Puerto Vallarta 55: Puerto Vallarta leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Mumbai 35, Puerto Vallarta 65: Puerto Vallarta leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Mumbai 38, Puerto Vallarta 45: Puerto Vallarta leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Mumbai 66, Puerto Vallarta 42: Mumbai leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Mumbai 72, Puerto Vallarta 60: Mumbai leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Mumbai 55, Puerto Vallarta 32: Mumbai leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Mumbai 24, Puerto Vallarta 52: Puerto Vallarta leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Mumbai and Puerto Vallarta.

Your match

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

Mumbai
51match

Wins on culture and sights and shopping with your weighting.

Puerto Vallarta
Best match
56match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Mumbai in July

31 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
860 mmrain in the month
2 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Puerto Vallarta in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
209 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

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. Mumbai: 1991-2020 normals, Bombay / Santacruz (5.4 km from centre). Puerto Vallarta: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureMumbaiPuerto 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
Elevation14 m101 m
Main airportChhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (BOM)2 km from centre122 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)5 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-9 days

By the numbers

MeasureMumbaiPuerto Vallarta
City population15,414,288224,166
People per km²25,5634,311
Museums within 10 km12
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 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. 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.