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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 glass bubble of the Dalí Museum above its garden, St. Petersburg, Florida
St. Petersburg, FloridaThe glass bubble of the Dalí Museum above its garden

Photos: Nuevo Vallarta by Harpqueen, Public domain; St. Petersburg, Florida by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Nuevo Vallarta or St. Petersburg, Florida?

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
  • prices

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

Choose St. Petersburg, Florida for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Petersburg, Florida’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, St. Petersburg, Florida 85: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Nuevo Vallarta 40, St. Petersburg, Florida 52: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Nuevo Vallarta 6, St. Petersburg, Florida 52: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 46 points.
Nightlife. Nuevo Vallarta 16, St. Petersburg, Florida 44: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Nuevo Vallarta 75, St. Petersburg, Florida 58: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Nuevo Vallarta 58, St. Petersburg, Florida 55: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Nuevo Vallarta 73, St. Petersburg, Florida 70: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Nuevo Vallarta 25, St. Petersburg, Florida 33: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Nuevo Vallarta 22, St. Petersburg, Florida 38: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Nuevo Vallarta 45, St. Petersburg, Florida 35: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Nuevo Vallarta 18, St. Petersburg, Florida 42: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Nuevo Vallarta 55, St. Petersburg, Florida 40: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Nuevo Vallarta and St. Petersburg, Florida.

Your match

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

Nuevo Vallarta
43match

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

St. Petersburg, Florida
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
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

St. Petersburg, Florida in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
197 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °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.

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. St. Petersburg, Florida: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNuevo VallartaSt. Petersburg, Florida
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 m134 m
Main airportPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)4 km from centre52 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)16 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureNuevo VallartaSt. Petersburg, Florida
City population1,301258,308
People per km²-725
Museums within 10 km013
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months8 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.