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The Fortaleza San Felipe, Puerto Plata
Puerto PlataThe Fortaleza San Felipe
Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo
TokyoShibuya Crossing

Photos: Puerto Plata by CareAhLine, CC0; Tokyo by Benh LIEU SONG, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Puerto Plata or Tokyo?

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

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

Choose Tokyo for

  • shopping
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Tokyo’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, Tokyo 40: Puerto Plata leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Plata 40, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 58 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Plata 35, Tokyo 84: Tokyo leads by 49 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Plata 38, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 48 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Plata and Tokyo are level on 68.
Day trips. Puerto Plata 48, Tokyo 85: Tokyo leads by 37 points.
Good for families. Puerto Plata 57, Tokyo 95: Tokyo leads by 38 points.
Getting around. Puerto Plata 30, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 68 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Plata 30, Tokyo 99: Tokyo leads by 69 points.
Affordability. Puerto Plata 64, Tokyo 48: Puerto Plata leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Plata 18, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 68 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Plata 35, Tokyo 78: Tokyo leads by 43 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Plata and Tokyo.

Your match

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

Puerto Plata
45match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Tokyo
Best match
80match

Wins on shopping 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
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Tokyo in July

30 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
157 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
23 °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). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto PlataTokyo
Official languageSpanishJapanese
CurrencyDominican Peso (DOP)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation34 m6 m
Main airportGregorio Luperon International Airport (POP)13 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto PlataTokyo
City population-14,264,798
People per km²-6,501
Museums within 10 km1192
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 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.