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Playa de los Muertos below the green hills, Puerto Vallarta
Puerto VallartaPlaya de los Muertos below the green hills
Château Frontenac from Dufferin Terrace, Quebec City
Quebec CityChâteau Frontenac from Dufferin Terrace

Photos: Puerto Vallarta by RL0919, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Quebec City by Jeangagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Puerto Vallarta or Quebec City?

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 Vallarta for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • prices

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

Choose Quebec City for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Quebec City’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 Vallarta 85, Quebec City 18: Puerto Vallarta leads by 67 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Vallarta 62, Quebec City 57: Puerto Vallarta leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Vallarta 28, Quebec City 70: Quebec City leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Vallarta 66, Quebec City 42: Puerto Vallarta leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Vallarta 76, Quebec City 79: Quebec City leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Puerto Vallarta 55, Quebec City 58: Quebec City leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Puerto Vallarta 65, Quebec City 64: Puerto Vallarta leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Puerto Vallarta 45, Quebec City 50: Quebec City leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Vallarta 42, Quebec City 45: Quebec City leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Puerto Vallarta 60, Quebec City 45: Puerto Vallarta leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Vallarta 32, Quebec City 52: Quebec City leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Vallarta 52, Quebec City 55: Quebec City leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Vallarta and Quebec City.

Your match

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

Puerto Vallarta
Best match
56match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Quebec City
53match

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 Vallarta in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
209 mmrain in the month
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Quebec City in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
119 mmrain in the month
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

-10°0°10°20°30°40°JFMAMJJASOND

Rainfall in the month, mm

0100200300JFMAMJJASOND
Puerto VallartaQuebec City

Where the figures come from

Puerto Vallarta has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Puerto Vallarta: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km. Quebec City: 1991-2020 normals, Beauport (3.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto VallartaQuebec City
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaFrench, English
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation101 m98 m
Main airportPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)5 km from centre52 non-stop destinationsQuebec Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)13 km from centre34 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto VallartaQuebec City
City population224,166574,482
People per km²4,3111,184
Museums within 10 km216
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.