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The Fortaleza San Felipe, Puerto Plata
Puerto PlataThe Fortaleza San Felipe
Bell Rock outside Sedona, Sedona
SedonaBell Rock outside Sedona

Photos: Puerto Plata by CareAhLine, CC0; Sedona by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Puerto Plata or Sedona?

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

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nightlife

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

Choose Sedona for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Sedona’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, Sedona 16: Puerto Plata leads by 64 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Plata 40, Sedona 33: Puerto Plata leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Plata 35, Sedona 20: Puerto Plata leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Plata 38, Sedona 8: Puerto Plata leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Plata 68, Sedona 93: Sedona leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Puerto Plata 48, Sedona 55: Sedona leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Puerto Plata 57, Sedona 42: Puerto Plata leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Puerto Plata 30, Sedona 22: Puerto Plata leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Plata 30, Sedona 34: Sedona leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Puerto Plata 64, Sedona 18: Puerto Plata leads by 46 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Plata 18, Sedona 13: Puerto Plata leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Plata 35, Sedona 82: Sedona leads by 47 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Plata and Sedona.

Your match

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

Puerto Plata
Best match
45match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Sedona
36match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors 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

Sedona in July

34 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
51 mmrain in the month
No seasea
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.

Sedona's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Sedona 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). Sedona: 2009-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sedona / West Sedona (1.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto PlataSedona
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyDominican Peso (DOP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC-7
Emergency number911911
Elevation34 m1,319 m
Main airportGregorio Luperon International Airport (POP)13 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsPhoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)160 km from centre149 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto PlataSedona
City population-9,684
People per km²-195
Museums within 10 km10
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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.