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The Gateway of India under a blue sky, Mumbai
MumbaiThe Gateway of India under a blue sky
The main beach with the green hills behind, Sayulita
SayulitaThe main beach with the green hills behind

Photos: Mumbai by Shubam Bhasin, Pexels License; Sayulita by Luisalvaz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Mumbai 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 Mumbai for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

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

Choose Sayulita for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Mumbai 18, Sayulita 80: Sayulita leads by 62 points.
Food & drink. Mumbai 82, Sayulita 42: Mumbai leads by 40 points.
Culture & sights. Mumbai 70, Sayulita 7: Mumbai leads by 63 points.
Nightlife. Mumbai 52, Sayulita 33: Mumbai leads by 19 points.
Nature & outdoors. Mumbai 55, Sayulita 72: Sayulita leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Mumbai 48, Sayulita 42: Mumbai leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Mumbai 35, Sayulita 42: Sayulita leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Mumbai 38, Sayulita 48: Sayulita leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Mumbai 66, Sayulita 33: Mumbai leads by 33 points.
Affordability. Mumbai 72, Sayulita 45: Mumbai leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Mumbai 55, Sayulita 12: Mumbai leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Mumbai 24, Sayulita 58: Sayulita leads by 34 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Mumbai and Sayulita.

Your match

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

Mumbai
Best match
51match

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

Sayulita
43match

Wins on beaches and wellness 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

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. Mumbai: 1991-2020 normals, Bombay / Santacruz (5.4 km from centre). Sayulita: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureMumbaiSayulita
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 m2 m
Main airportChhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (BOM)2 km from centre122 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)29 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-9 days

By the numbers

MeasureMumbaiSayulita
City population15,414,2883,390
People per km²25,563-
Museums within 10 km10
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 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). 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.