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The Fortaleza San Felipe, Puerto Plata
Puerto PlataThe Fortaleza San Felipe
Ushuaia below snow-capped mountains, Ushuaia
UshuaiaUshuaia below snow-capped mountains

Photos: Puerto Plata by CareAhLine, CC0; Ushuaia by Jan Tang, Pexels License.

Puerto Plata or Ushuaia?

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
  • day trips
  • prices

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

Choose Ushuaia for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Ushuaia’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, Ushuaia 3: Puerto Plata leads by 77 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Plata and Ushuaia are level on 40.
Culture & sights. Puerto Plata 35, Ushuaia 22: Puerto Plata leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Plata 38, Ushuaia 18: Puerto Plata leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Plata 68, Ushuaia 88: Ushuaia leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Puerto Plata 48, Ushuaia 14: Puerto Plata leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Puerto Plata 57, Ushuaia 40: Puerto Plata leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Puerto Plata 30, Ushuaia 45: Ushuaia leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Plata 30, Ushuaia 22: Puerto Plata leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Puerto Plata 64, Ushuaia 42: Puerto Plata leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Plata 18, Ushuaia 10: Puerto Plata leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Plata 35, Ushuaia 26: Puerto Plata leads by 9 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Plata and Ushuaia.

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 day trips with your weighting.

Ushuaia
31match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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

Ushuaia in July

4 °Cdaytime high
0 °Cnight-time low
36 mmrain in the month
2 hsunshine a day
No seasea
8 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). Ushuaia: 1991-2020 normals, Ushuaia Aerodrome (1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto PlataUshuaia
Official languageSpanishSpanish
CurrencyDominican Peso (DOP)Argentine Peso (ARS)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-4UTC-3
Emergency number911117 or 911
Elevation34 m23 m
Main airportGregorio Luperon International Airport (POP)13 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsUshuaia - Malvinas Argentinas International Airport (USH)4 km from centre9 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto PlataUshuaia
City population-82,615
People per km²-3,592
Museums within 10 km15
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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. 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.