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Main Street in winter, with snow on the mountainside, Park City
Park CityMain Street in winter, with snow on the mountainside
The main beach with the green hills behind, Sayulita
SayulitaThe main beach with the green hills behind

Photos: Park City by Quang Vuong, Pexels License; Sayulita by Luisalvaz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Park City 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 Park City for

  • families
  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Sayulita for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nightlife

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. Park City 8, Sayulita 80: Sayulita leads by 72 points.
Food & drink. Park City 40, Sayulita 42: Sayulita leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Park City 18, Sayulita 7: Park City leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Park City 25, Sayulita 33: Sayulita leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Park City 92, Sayulita 72: Park City leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Park City 40, Sayulita 42: Sayulita leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Park City 68, Sayulita 42: Park City leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Park City 60, Sayulita 48: Park City leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Park City 35, Sayulita 33: Park City leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Park City 12, Sayulita 45: Sayulita leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Park City 28, Sayulita 12: Park City leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Park City 52, Sayulita 58: Sayulita leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Park City and Sayulita.

Your match

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

Park City
40match

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

Sayulita
Best match
43match

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.

Park City in July

28 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
21 mmrain in the month
No seasea
15 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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Park CitySayulita

Where the figures come from

Park City's temperatures are measured 79 km from the centre, at Evanston.

Park City 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.

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. Park City: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Evanston (78.8 km from centre). Sayulita: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasurePark CitySayulita
Official language-Spanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,134 m2 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)43 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)29 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasurePark CitySayulita
City population8,3963,390
People per km²185-
Museums within 10 km10
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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). 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. 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.

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.