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The main beach with the green hills behind, Sayulita
SayulitaThe main beach with the green hills behind
Cliff-top hotels above the harbour, Sorrento
SorrentoCliff-top hotels above the harbour

Photos: Sayulita by Luisalvaz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Sorrento by Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Sayulita or Sorrento?

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 Sayulita for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • wellness

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

Choose Sorrento for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Sorrento’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. Sayulita 80, Sorrento 60: Sayulita leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Sayulita 42, Sorrento 60: Sorrento leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Sayulita 7, Sorrento 32: Sorrento leads by 25 points.
Nightlife. Sayulita 33, Sorrento 28: Sayulita leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Sayulita 72, Sorrento 80: Sorrento leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Sayulita 42, Sorrento 95: Sorrento leads by 53 points.
Good for families. Sayulita and Sorrento are level on 42.
Getting around. Sayulita 48, Sorrento 58: Sorrento leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Sayulita 33, Sorrento 38: Sorrento leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Sayulita 45, Sorrento 32: Sayulita leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Sayulita 12, Sorrento 20: Sorrento leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Sayulita 58, Sorrento 48: Sayulita leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Sayulita and Sorrento.

Your match

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

Sayulita
43match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Sorrento
Best match
49match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

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

Sorrento in July

29 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
21 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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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.

Sorrento 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.

Sorrento's sunshine is measured 54 km from the centre, at Grazzanise.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Sayulita: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Sorrento: 2005-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Capri (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSayulitaSorrento
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaItalian
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2 m50 m
Main airportPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)29 km from centre52 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSayulitaSorrento
City population3,39015,407
People per km²-1,541
Museums within 10 km06
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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.

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.