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Playa de los Muertos below the green hills, Puerto Vallarta
Puerto VallartaPlaya de los Muertos below the green hills
The Viru Gate, Tallinn
TallinnThe Viru Gate

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

Puerto Vallarta or Tallinn?

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
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Tallinn for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Tallinn’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, Tallinn 28: Puerto Vallarta leads by 57 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Vallarta 62, Tallinn 52: Puerto Vallarta leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Vallarta 28, Tallinn 68: Tallinn leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Vallarta 66, Tallinn 44: Puerto Vallarta leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Vallarta 76, Tallinn 55: Puerto Vallarta leads by 21 points.
Day trips. Puerto Vallarta 55, Tallinn 58: Tallinn leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Puerto Vallarta 65, Tallinn 60: Puerto Vallarta leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Puerto Vallarta 45, Tallinn 72: Tallinn leads by 27 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Vallarta 42, Tallinn 40: Puerto Vallarta leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Puerto Vallarta 60, Tallinn 47: Puerto Vallarta leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Vallarta 32, Tallinn 50: Tallinn leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Vallarta 52, Tallinn 50: Puerto Vallarta leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Vallarta and Tallinn.

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Tallinn
52match

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

Tallinn in July

22 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
82 mmrain in the month
10 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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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. Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto VallartaTallinn
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaEstonian
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation101 m28 m
Main airportPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)5 km from centre52 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto VallartaTallinn
City population224,166457,572
People per km²4,3112,871
Museums within 10 km216
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
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. 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.