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The Fortaleza San Felipe, Puerto Plata
Puerto PlataThe Fortaleza San Felipe
York Minster from the city walls, York
YorkYork Minster from the city walls

Photos: Puerto Plata by CareAhLine, CC0; York by PAUL FARMER, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Puerto Plata or York?

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
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose York for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on York’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, York 14: Puerto Plata leads by 66 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Plata 40, York 42: York leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Plata 35, York 70: York leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Plata 38, York 36: Puerto Plata leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Plata 68, York 62: Puerto Plata leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Puerto Plata 48, York 80: York leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Puerto Plata 57, York 60: York leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Puerto Plata 30, York 72: York leads by 42 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Plata 30, York 46: York leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Puerto Plata 64, York 38: Puerto Plata leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Plata 18, York 38: York leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Plata 35, York 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 York.

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.

York
Best match
49match

Wins on getting around 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
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

York in July

21 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
62 mmrain in the month
6 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.

York 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.

York's sunshine is measured 48 km from the centre, at Leeming.

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). York: 1991-2020 normals, Linton-On-Ouse (14.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto PlataYork
Official languageSpanishEnglish
CurrencyDominican Peso (DOP)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-4UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 999
Elevation34 m25 m
Main airportGregorio Luperon International Airport (POP)13 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre69 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto PlataYork
City population-208,400
People per km²-766
Museums within 10 km124
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
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. 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.