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Rabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira, Porto
PortoRabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira
The main beach with the green hills behind, Sayulita
SayulitaThe main beach with the green hills behind

Photos: Porto by Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Sayulita by Luisalvaz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Porto 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 Porto for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

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

Choose Sayulita for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • 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. Porto 40, Sayulita 80: Sayulita leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Porto 70, Sayulita 42: Porto leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Porto 68, Sayulita 7: Porto leads by 61 points.
Nightlife. Porto 65, Sayulita 33: Porto leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Porto 64, Sayulita 72: Sayulita leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Porto 79, Sayulita 42: Porto leads by 37 points.
Good for families. Porto 52, Sayulita 42: Porto leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Porto 66, Sayulita 48: Porto leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Porto 52, Sayulita 33: Porto leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Porto 62, Sayulita 45: Porto leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Porto 52, Sayulita 12: Porto leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Porto 34, Sayulita 58: Sayulita leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Porto and Sayulita.

Your match

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

Porto
Best match
59match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Sayulita
43match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Porto in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
22 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Sayulita in July

29 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
342 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
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. Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre). Sayulita: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasurePortoSayulita
Official languagePortugueseSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation104 m2 m
Main airportFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre133 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)29 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasurePortoSayulita
City population273,4763,390
People per km²6,606-
Museums within 10 km420
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

Where else could you go?

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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). 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.