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Playa de los Muertos below the green hills, Puerto Vallarta
Puerto VallartaPlaya de los Muertos below the green hills
Half-timbered houses on the canal, Petite France, Strasbourg
StrasbourgHalf-timbered houses on the canal, Petite France

Photos: Puerto Vallarta by RL0919, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Strasbourg by Edoardo Colombo, Pexels License.

Puerto Vallarta or Strasbourg?

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 Strasbourg for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Strasbourg’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, Strasbourg 10: Puerto Vallarta leads by 75 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Vallarta 62, Strasbourg 66: Strasbourg leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Vallarta 28, Strasbourg 70: Strasbourg leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Vallarta 66, Strasbourg 40: Puerto Vallarta leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Vallarta 76, Strasbourg 62: Puerto Vallarta leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Puerto Vallarta 55, Strasbourg 80: Strasbourg leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Puerto Vallarta 65, Strasbourg 66: Strasbourg leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Puerto Vallarta 45, Strasbourg 79: Strasbourg leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Vallarta 42, Strasbourg 52: Strasbourg leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Puerto Vallarta 60, Strasbourg 44: Puerto Vallarta leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Vallarta 32, Strasbourg 56: Strasbourg leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Vallarta 52, Strasbourg 55: Strasbourg 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 Strasbourg.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Puerto Vallarta
56match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Strasbourg
57match

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

Strasbourg in July

26 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
72 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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 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. Strasbourg: 1991-2020 normals, Strasbourg (9.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto VallartaStrasbourg
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaFrench
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation101 m132 m
Main airportPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)5 km from centre52 non-stop destinationsStrasbourg Airport (SXB)10 km from centre43 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto VallartaStrasbourg
City population224,166293,771
People per km²4,3113,752
Museums within 10 km221
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.