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Playa de los Muertos below the green hills, Puerto Vallarta
Puerto VallartaPlaya de los Muertos below the green hills
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Puerto Vallarta by RL0919, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Puerto Vallarta or Yogyakarta?

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
  • families

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Yogyakarta’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, Yogyakarta 22: Puerto Vallarta leads by 63 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Vallarta and Yogyakarta are level on 62.
Culture & sights. Puerto Vallarta 28, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Vallarta 66, Yogyakarta 32: Puerto Vallarta leads by 34 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Vallarta 76, Yogyakarta 72: Puerto Vallarta leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Puerto Vallarta 55, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Puerto Vallarta 65, Yogyakarta 40: Puerto Vallarta leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Puerto Vallarta 45, Yogyakarta 35: Puerto Vallarta leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Vallarta 42, Yogyakarta 52: Yogyakarta leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Puerto Vallarta 60, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Vallarta 32, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Vallarta 52, Yogyakarta 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 Yogyakarta.

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
55match

Wins on culture and sights and prices 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

Yogyakarta in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
55 mmrain in the month
26 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Puerto VallartaYogyakarta

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.

Yogyakarta 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. Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasurePuerto VallartaYogyakarta
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaIndonesian
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+7
Emergency number911112
Elevation101 m113 m
Main airportPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)5 km from centre52 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days-

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto VallartaYogyakarta
City population224,166422,732
People per km²4,31113,007
Museums within 10 km238
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.