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The Fortaleza San Felipe, Puerto Plata
Puerto PlataThe Fortaleza San Felipe
Puente de San Martín over the Tagus, Toledo
ToledoPuente de San Martín over the Tagus

Photos: Puerto Plata by CareAhLine, CC0; Toledo by Ввласенко, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Puerto Plata or Toledo?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife

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

Choose Toledo for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Toledo’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, Toledo 5: Puerto Plata leads by 75 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Plata and Toledo are level on 40.
Culture & sights. Puerto Plata 35, Toledo 79: Toledo leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Plata 38, Toledo 22: Puerto Plata leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Plata 68, Toledo 40: Puerto Plata leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Puerto Plata 48, Toledo 78: Toledo leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Puerto Plata 57, Toledo 45: Puerto Plata leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Puerto Plata 30, Toledo 64: Toledo leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Plata 30, Toledo 32: Toledo leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Puerto Plata 64, Toledo 58: Puerto Plata leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Plata 18, Toledo 22: Toledo leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Plata 35, Toledo 30: Puerto Plata 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 Toledo.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Puerto Plata
45match

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

Toledo
43match

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
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Toledo in July

35 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
6 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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). Toledo: 1991-2020 normals, Toledo (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto PlataToledo
Official languageSpanishSpanish
CurrencyDominican Peso (DOP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation34 m523 m
Main airportGregorio Luperon International Airport (POP)13 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)80 km from centre239 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto PlataToledo
City population-87,216
People per km²-376
Museums within 10 km113
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.