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The beach and the bay with the mountains behind, Nuevo Vallarta
Nuevo VallartaThe beach and the bay with the mountains behind
The lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park, Paphos
PaphosThe lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park

Photos: Nuevo Vallarta by Harpqueen, Public domain; Paphos by Nikodem Nijaki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Nuevo Vallarta or Paphos?

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 Nuevo Vallarta for

  • wellness
  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Paphos for

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Paphos’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. Nuevo Vallarta 84, Paphos 76: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Nuevo Vallarta 40, Paphos 45: Paphos leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Nuevo Vallarta 6, Paphos 62: Paphos leads by 56 points.
Nightlife. Nuevo Vallarta 16, Paphos 38: Paphos leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Nuevo Vallarta 75, Paphos 70: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Nuevo Vallarta 58, Paphos 64: Paphos leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Nuevo Vallarta 73, Paphos 68: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Nuevo Vallarta 25, Paphos 40: Paphos leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Nuevo Vallarta 22, Paphos 25: Paphos leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Nuevo Vallarta 45, Paphos 52: Paphos leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Nuevo Vallarta 18, Paphos 22: Paphos leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Nuevo Vallarta 55, Paphos 42: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Nuevo Vallarta and Paphos.

Your match

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

Nuevo Vallarta
43match

Wins on wellness and beaches with your weighting.

Paphos
Best match
50match

Wins on culture and sights and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Nuevo Vallarta in July

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

Paphos in July

30 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
27 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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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.

Paphos has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Nuevo Vallarta: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km. Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNuevo VallartaPaphos
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation3 m72 m
Main airportPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)4 km from centre52 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre59 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureNuevo VallartaPaphos
City population1,30135,961
People per km²-1,987
Museums within 10 km04
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months6 months

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.