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Whitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum, Palm Beach
Palm BeachWhitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum
The main beach with the green hills behind, Sayulita
SayulitaThe main beach with the green hills behind

Photos: Palm Beach by Khowald, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Sayulita by Luisalvaz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Palm Beach or Sayulita?

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 Palm Beach for

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

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

Choose Sayulita for

  • prices
  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Sayulita’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. Palm Beach 82, Sayulita 80: Palm Beach leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Palm Beach 47, Sayulita 42: Palm Beach leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Palm Beach 45, Sayulita 7: Palm Beach leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Palm Beach 32, Sayulita 33: Sayulita leads by 1 points.
Nature & outdoors. Palm Beach 58, Sayulita 72: Sayulita leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Palm Beach 55, Sayulita 42: Palm Beach leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Palm Beach 62, Sayulita 42: Palm Beach leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Palm Beach 32, Sayulita 48: Sayulita leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Palm Beach 66, Sayulita 33: Palm Beach leads by 33 points.
Affordability. Palm Beach 12, Sayulita 45: Sayulita leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Palm Beach 45, Sayulita 12: Palm Beach leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Palm Beach 55, Sayulita 58: Sayulita leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Palm Beach and Sayulita.

Your match

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

Palm Beach
Best match
49match

Wins on culture and sights and shopping with your weighting.

Sayulita
43match

Wins on prices and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Sayulita in July

29 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
342 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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Where the figures come from

Sayulita 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. Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (6.8 km from centre). Sayulita: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasurePalm BeachSayulita
Official language-Spanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number911911
Elevation2 m2 m
Main airportPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)29 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalm BeachSayulita
City population9,2453,390
People per km²322-
Museums within 10 km40
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 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. 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.