VacationSelector
Playa de los Muertos below the green hills, Puerto Vallarta
Puerto VallartaPlaya de los Muertos below the green hills
The Latin Bridge over the Miljacka, Sarajevo
SarajevoThe Latin Bridge over the Miljacka

Photos: Puerto Vallarta by RL0919, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Sarajevo by Tumi-1983, CC0.

Puerto Vallarta or Sarajevo?

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
  • families
  • nightlife

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

Choose Sarajevo for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Sarajevo’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, Sarajevo 6: Puerto Vallarta leads by 79 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Vallarta 62, Sarajevo 60: Puerto Vallarta leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Vallarta 28, Sarajevo 64: Sarajevo leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Vallarta 66, Sarajevo 44: Puerto Vallarta leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Vallarta 76, Sarajevo 78: Sarajevo leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Puerto Vallarta 55, Sarajevo 62: Sarajevo leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Puerto Vallarta 65, Sarajevo 38: Puerto Vallarta leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Puerto Vallarta 45, Sarajevo 60: Sarajevo leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Vallarta 42, Sarajevo 40: Puerto Vallarta leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Puerto Vallarta 60, Sarajevo 80: Sarajevo leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Vallarta 32, Sarajevo 40: Sarajevo leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Vallarta 52, Sarajevo 42: Puerto Vallarta leads by 10 points.
0255075100

What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Vallarta and Sarajevo.

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 families with your weighting.

Sarajevo
51match

Wins on culture and sights and prices 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
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Sarajevo in July

28 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
75 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

0°10°20°30°40°JFMAMJJASOND

Rainfall in the month, mm

0100200300JFMAMJJASOND
Puerto VallartaSarajevo

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. Sarajevo: 1991-2020 normals, Sarajevo-Bejelave (2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto VallartaSarajevo
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaCroatian, Serbian, Bosnian
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Convertible Mark (BAM)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation101 m518 m
Main airportPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)5 km from centre52 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)7 km from centre38 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto VallartaSarajevo
City population224,166275,524
People per km²4,3111,947
Museums within 10 km225
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Puerto Vallarta or Sarajevo somewhere new.

Browse every destination

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.