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The Fortaleza San Felipe, Puerto Plata
Puerto PlataThe Fortaleza San Felipe
Vilnius Cathedral, Vilnius
VilniusVilnius Cathedral

Photos: Puerto Plata by CareAhLine, CC0; Vilnius by Scotch Mist, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Puerto Plata or Vilnius?

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
  • families

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

Choose Vilnius for

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Vilnius’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, Vilnius 17: Puerto Plata leads by 63 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Plata 40, Vilnius 50: Vilnius leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Plata 35, Vilnius 66: Vilnius leads by 31 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Plata 38, Vilnius 46: Vilnius leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Plata 68, Vilnius 52: Puerto Plata leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Puerto Plata 48, Vilnius 60: Vilnius leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Puerto Plata 57, Vilnius 44: Puerto Plata leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Puerto Plata 30, Vilnius 68: Vilnius leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Plata 30, Vilnius 38: Vilnius leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Puerto Plata and Vilnius are level on 64.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Plata 18, Vilnius 54: Vilnius leads by 36 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Plata 35, Vilnius 34: Puerto Plata leads by 1 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Plata and Vilnius.

Your match

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

Puerto Plata
45match

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

Vilnius
Best match
49match

Wins on getting around 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

Vilnius in July

24 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
90 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
No seasea
17 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). Vilnius: 1991-2020 normals, Vilnius (13 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto PlataVilnius
Official languageSpanishLithuanian
CurrencyDominican Peso (DOP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation34 m98 m
Main airportGregorio Luperon International Airport (POP)13 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsVilnius International Airport (VNO)6 km from centre82 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto PlataVilnius
City population-619,405
People per km²-1,545
Museums within 10 km131
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
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.