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Playa de los Muertos below the green hills, Puerto Vallarta
Puerto VallartaPlaya de los Muertos below the green hills
The beach promenade in Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv
Tel AvivThe beach promenade in Tel Aviv

Photos: Puerto Vallarta by RL0919, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Tel Aviv by israeltourism, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Puerto Vallarta or Tel Aviv?

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

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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

Choose Tel Aviv for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Tel Aviv’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, Tel Aviv 86: Tel Aviv leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Vallarta 62, Tel Aviv 80: Tel Aviv leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Vallarta 28, Tel Aviv 57: Tel Aviv leads by 29 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Vallarta 66, Tel Aviv 82: Tel Aviv leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Vallarta 76, Tel Aviv 52: Puerto Vallarta leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Puerto Vallarta 55, Tel Aviv 84: Tel Aviv leads by 29 points.
Good for families. Puerto Vallarta 65, Tel Aviv 68: Tel Aviv leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Puerto Vallarta 45, Tel Aviv 64: Tel Aviv leads by 19 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Vallarta 42, Tel Aviv 55: Tel Aviv leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Puerto Vallarta 60, Tel Aviv 14: Puerto Vallarta leads by 46 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Vallarta 32, Tel Aviv 70: Tel Aviv leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Vallarta 52, Tel Aviv 35: Puerto Vallarta leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Vallarta and Tel Aviv.

Your match

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

Puerto Vallarta
56match

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

Tel Aviv
Best match
62match

Wins on live music and the arts 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

Tel Aviv in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
27 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Puerto VallartaTel Aviv

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. Tel Aviv: 1991-2020 normals, Bet Dagan (9.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto VallartaTel Aviv
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaHebrew
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)New Israeli Sheqel (ILS)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCHM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911Police 100, fire 102
Elevation101 m5 m
Main airportPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)5 km from centre52 non-stop destinationsBen Gurion International Airport (TLV)13 km from centre111 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days-

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto VallartaTel Aviv
City population224,166467,875
People per km²4,3118,998
Museums within 10 km298
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months7 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.