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Playa de los Muertos below the green hills, Puerto Vallarta
Puerto VallartaPlaya de los Muertos below the green hills
Taipei 101 and the skyline from Elephant Mountain, Taipei
TaipeiTaipei 101 and the skyline from Elephant Mountain

Photos: Puerto Vallarta by RL0919, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Taipei by Another Believer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Puerto Vallarta or Taipei?

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

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

Choose Taipei for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Taipei’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, Taipei 40: Puerto Vallarta leads by 45 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Vallarta 62, Taipei 88: Taipei leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Vallarta 28, Taipei 68: Taipei leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Vallarta 66, Taipei 58: Puerto Vallarta leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Vallarta 76, Taipei 78: Taipei leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Puerto Vallarta 55, Taipei 76: Taipei leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Puerto Vallarta 65, Taipei 72: Taipei leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Puerto Vallarta 45, Taipei 86: Taipei leads by 41 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Vallarta 42, Taipei 70: Taipei leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Puerto Vallarta 60, Taipei 66: Taipei leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Vallarta 32, Taipei 55: Taipei leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Vallarta 52, Taipei 80: Taipei leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Vallarta and Taipei.

Your match

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

Puerto Vallarta
56match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Taipei
Best match
70match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights 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

Taipei in July

35 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
288 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Puerto VallartaTaipei

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.

Taipei 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.

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. Taipei: 1992-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sungshan / Taipei (3.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto VallartaTaipei
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaTaiwanese Sign Language, Amis, Taiwanese Hokkien, Rukai, Bunun, Kanakanavu, Standard Taiwanese Mandarin, Paiwan, Yami, Atayal, Saaroa, Kavalan, Tsou, Seediq, Puyuma, Saisiyat, Sakizaya, Taiwanese Hakka, Truku, Matsu dialect, Kinmen dialect, Wuqiu dialect
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)New Taiwan Dollar (TWD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+8
Emergency number911110 or 112 or 119
Elevation101 m10 m
Main airportPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)5 km from centre52 non-stop destinationsTaiwan Taoyuan International Airport (TPE)33 km from centre
Public holidays this year9 days-

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto VallartaTaipei
City population224,1662,429,429
People per km²4,3118,938
Museums within 10 km269
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months8 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.