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Palms on a white beach at Cap Cana, Punta Cana
Punta CanaPalms on a white beach at Cap Cana
Rice terraces and palms at Tegallalang, Ubud
UbudRice terraces and palms at Tegallalang

Photos: Punta Cana by Mary Mark Ockerbloom, CC0; Ubud by Pinterpandai, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Punta Cana or Ubud?

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
  • nightlife
  • families

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

Choose Ubud for

  • culture and sights
  • wellness
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Ubud’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, Ubud 38: Punta Cana leads by 56 points.
Food & drink. Punta Cana 30, Ubud 60: Ubud leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Punta Cana 8, Ubud 58: Ubud leads by 50 points.
Nightlife. Punta Cana 40, Ubud 15: Punta Cana leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Punta Cana 52, Ubud 80: Ubud leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Punta Cana 35, Ubud 72: Ubud leads by 37 points.
Good for families. Punta Cana 68, Ubud 48: Punta Cana leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Punta Cana 15, Ubud 10: Punta Cana leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Punta Cana 30, Ubud 52: Ubud leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Punta Cana 44, Ubud 80: Ubud leads by 36 points.
Live music & performing arts. Punta Cana 15, Ubud 47: Ubud leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Punta Cana 52, Ubud 96: Ubud leads by 44 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Punta Cana and Ubud.

Your match

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

Punta Cana
40match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Ubud
Best match
55match

Wins on culture and sights and wellness 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

Ubud in July

29 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
110 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
27 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Punta CanaUbud

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.

Ubud's temperatures are measured 29 km from the centre, at Denpasar / Ngurah-Rai.

Ubud's station stands 209 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Ubud 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). Ubud: 1991-2020 normals, Denpasar / Ngurah-Rai (29 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePunta CanaUbud
Official languageSpanishIndonesian
CurrencyDominican Peso (DOP)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+8
Emergency number911112
Elevation28 m210 m
Main airportPunta Cana International Airport (PUJ)1 km from centre93 non-stop destinationsDenpasar I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport (DPS)29 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasurePunta CanaUbud
City population138,919-
People per km²292-
Museums within 10 km014
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 months

Where else could you go?

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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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.