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The main beach with the green hills behind, Sayulita
SayulitaThe main beach with the green hills behind
Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo
TokyoShibuya Crossing

Photos: Sayulita by Luisalvaz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Tokyo by Benh LIEU SONG, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Sayulita or Tokyo?

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
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Tokyo for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Tokyo’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, Tokyo 40: Sayulita leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Sayulita 42, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 56 points.
Culture & sights. Sayulita 7, Tokyo 84: Tokyo leads by 77 points.
Nightlife. Sayulita 33, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 53 points.
Nature & outdoors. Sayulita 72, Tokyo 68: Sayulita leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Sayulita 42, Tokyo 85: Tokyo leads by 43 points.
Good for families. Sayulita 42, Tokyo 95: Tokyo leads by 53 points.
Getting around. Sayulita 48, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 50 points.
Shopping & style. Sayulita 33, Tokyo 99: Tokyo leads by 66 points.
Affordability. Sayulita 45, Tokyo 48: Tokyo leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Sayulita 12, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 74 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Sayulita 58, Tokyo 78: Tokyo leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Sayulita and Tokyo.

Your match

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

Sayulita
43match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Tokyo
Best match
80match

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

Tokyo in July

30 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
157 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
23 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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SayulitaTokyo

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. Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSayulitaTokyo
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaJapanese
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation2 m6 m
Main airportPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)29 km from centre52 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSayulitaTokyo
City population3,39014,264,798
People per km²-6,501
Museums within 10 km0192
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 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.