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Playa de los Muertos below the green hills, Puerto Vallarta
Puerto VallartaPlaya de los Muertos below the green hills
The skyline reflected in the water, The Hague
The HagueThe skyline reflected in the water

Photos: Puerto Vallarta by RL0919, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; The Hague by Bráulio jardim, Pexels License.

Puerto Vallarta or The Hague?

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 The Hague for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on The Hague’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, The Hague 38: Puerto Vallarta leads by 47 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Vallarta 62, The Hague 48: Puerto Vallarta leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Vallarta 28, The Hague 66: The Hague leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Vallarta 66, The Hague 38: Puerto Vallarta leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Vallarta 76, The Hague 52: Puerto Vallarta leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Puerto Vallarta 55, The Hague 86: The Hague leads by 31 points.
Good for families. Puerto Vallarta 65, The Hague 72: The Hague leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Puerto Vallarta 45, The Hague 78: The Hague leads by 33 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Vallarta 42, The Hague 55: The Hague leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Puerto Vallarta 60, The Hague 35: Puerto Vallarta leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Vallarta 32, The Hague 58: The Hague leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Vallarta 52, The Hague 45: Puerto Vallarta leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Vallarta and The Hague.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Puerto Vallarta
56match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

The Hague
56match

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

The Hague in July

21 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
78 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
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.

The Hague 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.

The Hague's sunshine is measured 60 km from the centre, at De Bilt.

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. The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto VallartaThe Hague
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaDutch
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation101 m1 m
Main airportPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)5 km from centre52 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto VallartaThe Hague
City population224,166548,320
People per km²4,3115,589
Museums within 10 km254
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
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.