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The old town below the fortress, Salzburg
SalzburgThe old town below the fortress
The main beach with the green hills behind, Sayulita
SayulitaThe main beach with the green hills behind

Photos: Salzburg by Leonhard Niederwimmer, Pexels License; Sayulita by Luisalvaz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Salzburg 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 Salzburg for

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

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

Choose Sayulita for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nightlife

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. Salzburg 35, Sayulita 80: Sayulita leads by 45 points.
Food & drink. Salzburg 45, Sayulita 42: Salzburg leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Salzburg 72, Sayulita 7: Salzburg leads by 65 points.
Nightlife. Salzburg 25, Sayulita 33: Sayulita leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Salzburg 86, Sayulita 72: Salzburg leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Salzburg 80, Sayulita 42: Salzburg leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Salzburg 65, Sayulita 42: Salzburg leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Salzburg 72, Sayulita 48: Salzburg leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Salzburg 48, Sayulita 33: Salzburg leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Salzburg 32, Sayulita 45: Sayulita leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Salzburg 80, Sayulita 12: Salzburg leads by 68 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Salzburg 55, Sayulita 58: Sayulita leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Salzburg and Sayulita.

Your match

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

Salzburg
Best match
58match

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

Sayulita
43match

Wins on beaches 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.

Salzburg in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
159 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Sayulita in July

29 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
342 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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SalzburgSayulita

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. Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre). Sayulita: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureSalzburgSayulita
Official languageGerman, Austrian Sign LanguageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation424 m2 m
Main airportSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre64 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)29 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureSalzburgSayulita
City population155,0213,390
People per km²2,360-
Museums within 10 km380
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. 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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.