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Lower Broadway and its honky-tonks, Nashville
NashvilleLower Broadway and its honky-tonks
Playa de los Muertos below the green hills, Puerto Vallarta
Puerto VallartaPlaya de los Muertos below the green hills

Photos: Nashville by Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Puerto Vallarta by RL0919, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Nashville 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 Nashville for

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

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

Choose Puerto Vallarta for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Nashville 14, Puerto Vallarta 85: Puerto Vallarta leads by 71 points.
Food & drink. Nashville and Puerto Vallarta are level on 62.
Culture & sights. Nashville 50, Puerto Vallarta 28: Nashville leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Nashville 70, Puerto Vallarta 66: Nashville leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Nashville 46, Puerto Vallarta 76: Puerto Vallarta leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Nashville 52, Puerto Vallarta 55: Puerto Vallarta leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Nashville 55, Puerto Vallarta 65: Puerto Vallarta leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Nashville 30, Puerto Vallarta 45: Puerto Vallarta leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Nashville and Puerto Vallarta are level on 42.
Affordability. Nashville 30, Puerto Vallarta 60: Puerto Vallarta leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Nashville 82, Puerto Vallarta 32: Nashville leads by 50 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Nashville 20, Puerto Vallarta 52: Puerto Vallarta leads by 32 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Nashville and Puerto Vallarta.

Your match

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

Nashville
46match

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

Puerto Vallarta
Best match
56match

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.

Nashville in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
104 mmrain in the month
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Puerto Vallarta in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
209 mmrain in the month
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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NashvillePuerto Vallarta

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. Nashville: 1991-2020 normals, Nashville Airport (9.6 km from centre). Puerto Vallarta: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureNashvillePuerto Vallarta
Official language-Spanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number911911
Elevation182 m101 m
Main airportNashville International Airport (BNA)10 km from centre122 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)5 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureNashvillePuerto Vallarta
City population689,447224,166
People per km²5064,311
Museums within 10 km122
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.