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The Assembly Hall on Temple Square, Salt Lake City
Salt Lake CityThe Assembly Hall on Temple Square
The main beach with the green hills behind, Sayulita
SayulitaThe main beach with the green hills behind

Photos: Salt Lake City by hakkun, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Sayulita by Luisalvaz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Salt Lake City or Sayulita?

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 Salt Lake City for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Salt Lake City’s own page.

Choose Sayulita for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Sayulita’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. Salt Lake City 12, Sayulita 80: Sayulita leads by 68 points.
Food & drink. Salt Lake City 40, Sayulita 42: Sayulita leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Salt Lake City 42, Sayulita 7: Salt Lake City leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Salt Lake City 30, Sayulita 33: Sayulita leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Salt Lake City 90, Sayulita 72: Salt Lake City leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Salt Lake City 34, Sayulita 42: Sayulita leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Salt Lake City 72, Sayulita 42: Salt Lake City leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Salt Lake City 42, Sayulita 48: Sayulita leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Salt Lake City 36, Sayulita 33: Salt Lake City leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Salt Lake City 40, Sayulita 45: Sayulita leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Salt Lake City 55, Sayulita 12: Salt Lake City leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Salt Lake City 38, Sayulita 58: Sayulita leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Salt Lake City and Sayulita.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Salt Lake City
44match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights with your weighting.

Sayulita
43match

Wins on beaches 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.

Salt Lake City in July

34 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Sayulita in July

29 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
342 mmrain in the month
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Salt Lake CitySayulita

Where the figures come from

Sayulita 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. Salt Lake City: 1991-2020 normals, Salt Lake City International Airport (7.9 km from centre). Sayulita: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureSalt Lake CitySayulita
Official language-Spanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number911911
Elevation1,288 m2 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)9 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)29 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureSalt Lake CitySayulita
City population199,7233,390
People per km²690-
Museums within 10 km120
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.