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Playa de los Muertos below the green hills, Puerto Vallarta
Puerto VallartaPlaya de los Muertos below the green hills
Plaza de España, Seville
SevillePlaza de España

Photos: Puerto Vallarta by RL0919, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Seville by Tibor Kovacs, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Puerto Vallarta or Seville?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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

Choose Seville for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Seville’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, Seville 18: Puerto Vallarta leads by 67 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Vallarta 62, Seville 73: Seville leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Vallarta 28, Seville 82: Seville leads by 54 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Vallarta 66, Seville 62: Puerto Vallarta leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Vallarta 76, Seville 52: Puerto Vallarta leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Puerto Vallarta 55, Seville 80: Seville leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Puerto Vallarta 65, Seville 55: Puerto Vallarta leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Puerto Vallarta 45, Seville 72: Seville leads by 27 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Vallarta 42, Seville 55: Seville leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Puerto Vallarta 60, Seville 58: Puerto Vallarta leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Vallarta 32, Seville 68: Seville leads by 36 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Vallarta 52, Seville 40: Puerto Vallarta leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Vallarta and Seville.

Your match

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

Puerto Vallarta
56match

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

Seville
Best match
60match

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
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Seville in July

36 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Puerto VallartaSeville

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. Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto VallartaSeville
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaSpanish
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation101 m18 m
Main airportPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)5 km from centre52 non-stop destinationsSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre96 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto VallartaSeville
City population224,166689,423
People per km²4,3114,896
Museums within 10 km224
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. 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.

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.