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Playa de los Muertos below the green hills, Puerto Vallarta
Puerto VallartaPlaya de los Muertos below the green hills
The CN Tower and skyline from the Toronto Islands, Toronto
TorontoThe CN Tower and skyline from the Toronto Islands

Photos: Puerto Vallarta by RL0919, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Toronto by Dillan Payne, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Puerto Vallarta or Toronto?

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
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Toronto for

  • live music and the arts
  • shopping
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Toronto’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, Toronto 34: Puerto Vallarta leads by 51 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Vallarta 62, Toronto 70: Toronto leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Vallarta 28, Toronto 50: Toronto leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Vallarta 66, Toronto 62: Puerto Vallarta leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Vallarta 76, Toronto 52: Puerto Vallarta leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Puerto Vallarta 55, Toronto 50: Puerto Vallarta leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Puerto Vallarta 65, Toronto 74: Toronto leads by 9 points.
Getting around. Puerto Vallarta 45, Toronto 65: Toronto leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Vallarta 42, Toronto 66: Toronto leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Puerto Vallarta 60, Toronto 34: Puerto Vallarta leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Vallarta 32, Toronto 72: Toronto leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Vallarta 52, Toronto 33: Puerto Vallarta leads by 19 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Vallarta and Toronto.

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 prices with your weighting.

Toronto
55match

Wins on live music and the arts and shopping 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

Toronto in July

27 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
20 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Puerto VallartaToronto

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. Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto VallartaToronto
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaFrench, English
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation101 m76 m
Main airportPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)5 km from centre52 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto VallartaToronto
City population224,1662,794,356
People per km²4,3114,434
Museums within 10 km232
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months1 month

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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.