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Playa de los Muertos below the green hills, Puerto Vallarta
Puerto VallartaPlaya de los Muertos below the green hills
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Puerto Vallarta by RL0919, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Puerto Vallarta or Stockholm?

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
  • prices
  • nightlife

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

Choose Stockholm for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Stockholm’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, Stockholm 40: Puerto Vallarta leads by 45 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Vallarta 62, Stockholm 64: Stockholm leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Vallarta 28, Stockholm 77: Stockholm leads by 49 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Vallarta 66, Stockholm 57: Puerto Vallarta leads by 9 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Vallarta 76, Stockholm 72: Puerto Vallarta leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Puerto Vallarta 55, Stockholm 68: Stockholm leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Puerto Vallarta 65, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Puerto Vallarta 45, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 39 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Vallarta 42, Stockholm 70: Stockholm leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Puerto Vallarta 60, Stockholm 30: Puerto Vallarta leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Vallarta 32, Stockholm 65: Stockholm leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Vallarta 52, Stockholm 56: Stockholm leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Vallarta and Stockholm.

Your match

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

Puerto Vallarta
56match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Stockholm
Best match
64match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around 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

Stockholm in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
65 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Puerto VallartaStockholm

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.

Stockholm 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.

Stockholm's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Stockholm Observatoriet.

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. Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto VallartaStockholm
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaSwedish
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation101 m22 m
Main airportPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)5 km from centre52 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto VallartaStockholm
City population224,166984,748
People per km²4,3115,260
Museums within 10 km2266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.