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The Fortaleza San Felipe, Puerto Plata
Puerto PlataThe Fortaleza San Felipe
Savannah City Hall and its golden dome, Savannah
SavannahSavannah City Hall and its golden dome

Photos: Puerto Plata by CareAhLine, CC0; Savannah by Chris M Morris, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Puerto Plata or Savannah?

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 Puerto Plata for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Savannah for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Savannah’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. Puerto Plata 80, Savannah 55: Puerto Plata leads by 25 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Plata 40, Savannah 58: Savannah leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Plata 35, Savannah 68: Savannah leads by 33 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Plata 38, Savannah 52: Savannah leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Plata 68, Savannah 48: Puerto Plata leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Puerto Plata 48, Savannah 60: Savannah leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Puerto Plata 57, Savannah 50: Puerto Plata leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Puerto Plata 30, Savannah 58: Savannah leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Plata 30, Savannah 42: Savannah leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Puerto Plata 64, Savannah 35: Puerto Plata leads by 29 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Plata 18, Savannah 40: Savannah leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Plata 35, Savannah 40: Savannah leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Plata and Savannah.

Your match

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

Puerto Plata
45match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

Savannah
Best match
51match

Wins on culture and sights 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.

Puerto Plata in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
67 mmrain in the month
28 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Savannah in July

34 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
144 mmrain in the month
29 °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

Puerto Plata 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. Puerto Plata: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Puerto Plata (15.3 km from centre). Savannah: 1991-2020 normals, Savannah Airport (9.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto PlataSavannah
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyDominican Peso (DOP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation34 m15 m
Main airportGregorio Luperon International Airport (POP)13 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsSavannah Hilton Head International Airport (SAV)12 km from centre39 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto PlataSavannah
City population-147,780
People per km²-524
Museums within 10 km119
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months6 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). 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. 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.