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Palms on a white beach at Cap Cana, Punta Cana
Punta CanaPalms on a white beach at Cap Cana
Neues Schloss with magnolias in bloom, Stuttgart
StuttgartNeues Schloss with magnolias in bloom

Photos: Punta Cana by Mary Mark Ockerbloom, CC0; Stuttgart by Baden de, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Punta Cana or Stuttgart?

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 Punta Cana for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Punta Cana’s own page.

Choose Stuttgart for

  • live music and the arts
  • getting around
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Stuttgart’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. Punta Cana 94, Stuttgart 8: Punta Cana leads by 86 points.
Food & drink. Punta Cana 30, Stuttgart 58: Stuttgart leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Punta Cana 8, Stuttgart 62: Stuttgart leads by 54 points.
Nightlife. Punta Cana 40, Stuttgart 42: Stuttgart leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Punta Cana 52, Stuttgart 60: Stuttgart leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Punta Cana 35, Stuttgart 80: Stuttgart leads by 45 points.
Good for families. Punta Cana 68, Stuttgart 66: Punta Cana leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Punta Cana 15, Stuttgart 72: Stuttgart leads by 57 points.
Shopping & style. Punta Cana 30, Stuttgart 58: Stuttgart leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Punta Cana 44, Stuttgart 40: Punta Cana leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Punta Cana 15, Stuttgart 74: Stuttgart leads by 59 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Punta Cana 52, Stuttgart 64: Stuttgart leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Punta Cana and Stuttgart.

Your match

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

Punta Cana
40match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Stuttgart
Best match
57match

Wins on live music and the arts 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.

Punta Cana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
96 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Stuttgart in July

26 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
79 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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

Punta Cana 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Punta Cana: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Punta Cana (0.9 km from centre). Stuttgart: 1991-2020 normals, Stuttgart / Neckartal (2.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePunta CanaStuttgart
Official languageSpanishGerman
CurrencyDominican Peso (DOP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation28 m245 m
Main airportPunta Cana International Airport (PUJ)1 km from centre93 non-stop destinationsStuttgart Airport (STR)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePunta CanaStuttgart
City population138,919609,365
People per km²2922,938
Museums within 10 km042
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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). 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.