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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 boardwalk at Delaware Avenue, Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth BeachThe boardwalk at Delaware Avenue

Photos: Nuevo Vallarta by Harpqueen, Public domain; Rehoboth Beach by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Nuevo Vallarta or Rehoboth Beach?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • beaches

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

Choose Rehoboth Beach for

  • getting around
  • nightlife
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Rehoboth Beach’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, Rehoboth Beach 70: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Nuevo Vallarta 40, Rehoboth Beach 44: Rehoboth Beach leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Nuevo Vallarta 6, Rehoboth Beach 14: Rehoboth Beach leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Nuevo Vallarta 16, Rehoboth Beach 40: Rehoboth Beach leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Nuevo Vallarta 75, Rehoboth Beach 50: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Nuevo Vallarta 58, Rehoboth Beach 50: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Nuevo Vallarta 73, Rehoboth Beach 70: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Nuevo Vallarta 25, Rehoboth Beach 50: Rehoboth Beach leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Nuevo Vallarta 22, Rehoboth Beach 45: Rehoboth Beach leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Nuevo Vallarta 45, Rehoboth Beach 32: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Nuevo Vallarta 18, Rehoboth Beach 28: Rehoboth Beach leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Nuevo Vallarta 55, Rehoboth Beach 32: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 23 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Nuevo Vallarta and Rehoboth Beach.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Nuevo Vallarta
43match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and wellness with your weighting.

Rehoboth Beach
44match

Wins on getting around 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

Rehoboth Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
92 mmrain in the month
23 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Nuevo VallartaRehoboth Beach

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.

Rehoboth Beach 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. Rehoboth Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Georgetown / Rogers Development (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNuevo VallartaRehoboth Beach
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya-
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation3 m5 m
Main airportPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)4 km from centre52 non-stop destinationsSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)56 km from centre4 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureNuevo VallartaRehoboth Beach
City population1,3011,108
People per km²-258
Museums within 10 km02
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months3 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. 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.