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The Fortaleza San Felipe, Puerto Plata
Puerto PlataThe Fortaleza San Felipe
The Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal, Venice
VeniceThe Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal

Photos: Puerto Plata by CareAhLine, CC0; Venice by David Vives, Pexels License.

Puerto Plata or Venice?

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

  • prices
  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Venice for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Venice’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, Venice 56: Puerto Plata leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Plata 40, Venice 60: Venice leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Plata 35, Venice 94: Venice leads by 59 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Plata 38, Venice 27: Puerto Plata leads by 11 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Plata 68, Venice 45: Puerto Plata leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Puerto Plata 48, Venice 86: Venice leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Puerto Plata 57, Venice 45: Puerto Plata leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Puerto Plata 30, Venice 68: Venice leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Plata 30, Venice 57: Venice leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Puerto Plata 64, Venice 20: Puerto Plata leads by 44 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Plata 18, Venice 62: Venice leads by 44 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Plata 35, Venice 40: Venice 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 Venice.

Your match

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

Puerto Plata
45match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

Venice
Best match
55match

Wins on culture and sights 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

Venice in July

29 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
61 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
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.

Venice 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.

Venice's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Treviso / S. Angelo.

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). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Venezia / Tessera (6.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto PlataVenice
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 m2 m
Main airportGregorio Luperon International Airport (POP)13 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto PlataVenice
City population-250,369
People per km²-602
Museums within 10 km152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 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.