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The main beach with the green hills behind, Sayulita
SayulitaThe main beach with the green hills behind
The old railway depot in the snow, Steamboat Springs
Steamboat SpringsThe old railway depot in the snow

Photos: Sayulita by Luisalvaz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Steamboat Springs by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Sayulita or Steamboat Springs?

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
  • day trips
  • prices

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

Choose Steamboat Springs for

  • families
  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Steamboat Springs’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, Steamboat Springs 7: Sayulita leads by 73 points.
Food & drink. Sayulita 42, Steamboat Springs 30: Sayulita leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Sayulita 7, Steamboat Springs 14: Steamboat Springs leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Sayulita 33, Steamboat Springs 20: Sayulita leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Sayulita 72, Steamboat Springs 88: Steamboat Springs leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Sayulita 42, Steamboat Springs 12: Sayulita leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Sayulita 42, Steamboat Springs 62: Steamboat Springs leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Sayulita 48, Steamboat Springs 46: Sayulita leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Sayulita 33, Steamboat Springs 22: Sayulita leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Sayulita 45, Steamboat Springs 17: Sayulita leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Sayulita 12, Steamboat Springs 28: Steamboat Springs leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Sayulita 58, Steamboat Springs 70: Steamboat Springs leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Sayulita and Steamboat Springs.

Your match

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

Sayulita
Best match
43match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Steamboat Springs
35match

Wins on families and nature and the outdoors 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
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Steamboat Springs in July

28 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
31 mmrain in the month
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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SayulitaSteamboat Springs

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.

Steamboat Springs 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. Sayulita: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Steamboat Springs: 2011-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Steamboat Springs / Steamboat Ii (5.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSayulitaSteamboat Springs
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya-
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation2 m2,052 m
Main airportPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)29 km from centre52 non-stop destinationsYampa Valley Airport (HDN)33 km from centre17 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSayulitaSteamboat Springs
City population3,39013,224
People per km²-503
Museums within 10 km00
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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.