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The Fortaleza San Felipe, Puerto Plata
Puerto PlataThe Fortaleza San Felipe
The Basilica of Superga, Turin
TurinThe Basilica of Superga

Photos: Puerto Plata by CareAhLine, CC0; Turin by Konstantin Dacosta, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Puerto Plata or Turin?

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 Turin for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Turin’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, Turin 12: Puerto Plata leads by 68 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Plata 40, Turin 81: Turin leads by 41 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Plata 35, Turin 78: Turin leads by 43 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Plata 38, Turin 50: Turin leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Plata 68, Turin 80: Turin leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Puerto Plata 48, Turin 84: Turin leads by 36 points.
Good for families. Puerto Plata and Turin are level on 57.
Getting around. Puerto Plata 30, Turin 68: Turin leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Plata 30, Turin 58: Turin leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Puerto Plata 64, Turin 58: Puerto Plata leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Plata 18, Turin 65: Turin leads by 47 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Plata 35, Turin 40: Turin 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 Turin.

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.

Turin
Best match
61match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights 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

Turin in July

29 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
56 mmrain in the month
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.

Turin 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). Turin: 1991-2020 normals, Torino / Caselle (15.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto PlataTurin
Official languageSpanishItalian
CurrencyDominican Peso (DOP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation34 m239 m
Main airportGregorio Luperon International Airport (POP)13 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsTurin Airport (TRN)14 km from centre65 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto PlataTurin
City population-841,600
People per km²-6,474
Museums within 10 km172
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
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.