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The main beach with the green hills behind, Sayulita
SayulitaThe main beach with the green hills behind
The glass bubble of the Dalí Museum above its garden, St. Petersburg, Florida
St. Petersburg, FloridaThe glass bubble of the Dalí Museum above its garden

Photos: Sayulita by Luisalvaz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; St. Petersburg, Florida by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Sayulita or St. Petersburg, Florida?

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

  • wellness
  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose St. Petersburg, Florida for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Petersburg, Florida’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, St. Petersburg, Florida 85: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Sayulita 42, St. Petersburg, Florida 52: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Sayulita 7, St. Petersburg, Florida 52: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 45 points.
Nightlife. Sayulita 33, St. Petersburg, Florida 44: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 11 points.
Nature & outdoors. Sayulita 72, St. Petersburg, Florida 58: Sayulita leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Sayulita 42, St. Petersburg, Florida 55: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Sayulita 42, St. Petersburg, Florida 70: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Sayulita 48, St. Petersburg, Florida 33: Sayulita leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Sayulita 33, St. Petersburg, Florida 38: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Sayulita 45, St. Petersburg, Florida 35: Sayulita leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Sayulita 12, St. Petersburg, Florida 42: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Sayulita 58, St. Petersburg, Florida 40: Sayulita leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Sayulita and St. Petersburg, Florida.

Your match

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

Sayulita
43match

Wins on wellness and getting around with your weighting.

St. Petersburg, Florida
Best match
50match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts 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

St. Petersburg, Florida in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
197 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 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.

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. St. Petersburg, Florida: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSayulitaSt. Petersburg, Florida
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya-
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation2 m134 m
Main airportPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)29 km from centre52 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)16 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSayulitaSt. Petersburg, Florida
City population3,390258,308
People per km²-725
Museums within 10 km013
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months8 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. 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.