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Playa de los Muertos below the green hills, Puerto Vallarta
Puerto VallartaPlaya de los Muertos below the green hills
Castelvecchio and Ponte Scaligero over the Adige, Verona
VeronaCastelvecchio and Ponte Scaligero over the Adige

Photos: Puerto Vallarta by RL0919, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Verona by NorbertNagel, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Puerto Vallarta or Verona?

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 Verona for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Verona’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, Verona 44: Puerto Vallarta leads by 41 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Vallarta 62, Verona 66: Verona leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Vallarta 28, Verona 76: Verona leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Vallarta 66, Verona 37: Puerto Vallarta leads by 29 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Vallarta 76, Verona 65: Puerto Vallarta leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Puerto Vallarta 55, Verona 92: Verona leads by 37 points.
Good for families. Puerto Vallarta 65, Verona 66: Verona leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Puerto Vallarta 45, Verona 68: Verona leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Vallarta 42, Verona 52: Verona leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Puerto Vallarta 60, Verona 46: Puerto Vallarta leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Vallarta 32, Verona 66: Verona leads by 34 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Vallarta 52, Verona 48: Puerto Vallarta leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Vallarta and Verona.

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.

Verona
Best match
61match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips 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

Verona in July

30 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
62 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Puerto VallartaVerona

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. Verona: 1991-2020 normals, Verona / Villafranca (11.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto VallartaVerona
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaItalian
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation101 m59 m
Main airportPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)5 km from centre52 non-stop destinationsVerona Villafranca Valerio Catullo Airport (VRN)10 km from centre96 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto VallartaVerona
City population224,166255,588
People per km²4,3111,285
Museums within 10 km218
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. 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.