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The Eiffel Tower from the Trocadéro, Paris
ParisThe Eiffel Tower from the Trocadéro
Palms on a white beach at Cap Cana, Punta Cana
Punta CanaPalms on a white beach at Cap Cana

Photos: Paris by Efrem Efre, Pexels License; Punta Cana by Mary Mark Ockerbloom, CC0.

Paris or Punta Cana?

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 Paris for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Punta Cana for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Punta Cana’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. Paris 9, Punta Cana 94: Punta Cana leads by 85 points.
Food & drink. Paris 96, Punta Cana 30: Paris leads by 66 points.
Culture & sights. Paris 97, Punta Cana 8: Paris leads by 89 points.
Nightlife. Paris 80, Punta Cana 40: Paris leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. Paris and Punta Cana are level on 52.
Day trips. Paris 92, Punta Cana 35: Paris leads by 57 points.
Good for families. Paris 79, Punta Cana 68: Paris leads by 11 points.
Getting around. Paris 88, Punta Cana 15: Paris leads by 73 points.
Shopping & style. Paris 98, Punta Cana 30: Paris leads by 68 points.
Affordability. Paris 25, Punta Cana 44: Punta Cana leads by 19 points.
Live music & performing arts. Paris 88, Punta Cana 15: Paris leads by 73 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Paris 40, Punta Cana 52: Punta Cana leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Paris and Punta Cana.

Your match

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

Paris
Best match
70match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

Punta Cana
40match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Paris in July

26 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
58 mmrain in the month
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Punta Cana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
96 mmrain in the month
28 °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

Punta Cana 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. Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre). Punta Cana: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Punta Cana (0.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureParisPunta Cana
Official languageFrenchSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Dominican Peso (DOP)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-4
Emergency number112911
Elevation27 m28 m
Main airportCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinationsPunta Cana International Airport (PUJ)1 km from centre93 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureParisPunta Cana
City population2,103,778138,919
People per km²19,960292
Museums within 10 km2510
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.