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The Fortaleza San Felipe, Puerto Plata
Puerto PlataThe Fortaleza San Felipe
Rice terraces and palms at Tegallalang, Ubud
UbudRice terraces and palms at Tegallalang

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

Puerto Plata or Ubud?

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
  • nightlife
  • getting around

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

Choose Ubud for

  • wellness
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Ubud’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, Ubud 38: Puerto Plata leads by 42 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Plata 40, Ubud 60: Ubud leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Plata 35, Ubud 58: Ubud leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Plata 38, Ubud 15: Puerto Plata leads by 23 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Plata 68, Ubud 80: Ubud leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Puerto Plata 48, Ubud 72: Ubud leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Puerto Plata 57, Ubud 48: Puerto Plata leads by 9 points.
Getting around. Puerto Plata 30, Ubud 10: Puerto Plata leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Plata 30, Ubud 52: Ubud leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Puerto Plata 64, Ubud 80: Ubud leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Plata 18, Ubud 47: Ubud leads by 29 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Plata 35, Ubud 96: Ubud leads by 61 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Plata and Ubud.

Your match

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

Puerto Plata
45match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Ubud
Best match
55match

Wins on wellness and live music and the arts 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

Ubud in July

29 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
110 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
27 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Puerto PlataUbud

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.

Ubud's temperatures are measured 29 km from the centre, at Denpasar / Ngurah-Rai.

Ubud's station stands 209 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Ubud 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). Ubud: 1991-2020 normals, Denpasar / Ngurah-Rai (29 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto PlataUbud
Official languageSpanishIndonesian
CurrencyDominican Peso (DOP)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+8
Emergency number911112
Elevation34 m210 m
Main airportGregorio Luperon International Airport (POP)13 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsDenpasar I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport (DPS)29 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto PlataUbud
Museums within 10 km114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 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.