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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
Rabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira, Porto
PortoRabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira

Photos: Nuevo Vallarta by Harpqueen, Public domain; Porto by Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Nuevo Vallarta or Porto?

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

  • beaches
  • families
  • wellness

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

Choose Porto for

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Porto’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, Porto 40: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 44 points.
Food & drink. Nuevo Vallarta 40, Porto 70: Porto leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Nuevo Vallarta 6, Porto 68: Porto leads by 62 points.
Nightlife. Nuevo Vallarta 16, Porto 65: Porto leads by 49 points.
Nature & outdoors. Nuevo Vallarta 75, Porto 64: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Nuevo Vallarta 58, Porto 79: Porto leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Nuevo Vallarta 73, Porto 52: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 21 points.
Getting around. Nuevo Vallarta 25, Porto 66: Porto leads by 41 points.
Shopping & style. Nuevo Vallarta 22, Porto 52: Porto leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Nuevo Vallarta 45, Porto 62: Porto leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Nuevo Vallarta 18, Porto 52: Porto leads by 34 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Nuevo Vallarta 55, Porto 34: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 21 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Nuevo Vallarta and Porto.

Your match

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

Nuevo Vallarta
43match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Porto
Best match
59match

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
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Porto in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
22 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
15 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.

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. Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNuevo VallartaPorto
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaPortuguese
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation3 m104 m
Main airportPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)4 km from centre52 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre133 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureNuevo VallartaPorto
City population1,301273,476
People per km²-6,606
Museums within 10 km042
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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.