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The main beach with the green hills behind, Sayulita
SayulitaThe main beach with the green hills behind
Ushuaia below snow-capped mountains, Ushuaia
UshuaiaUshuaia below snow-capped mountains

Photos: Sayulita by Luisalvaz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Ushuaia by Jan Tang, Pexels License.

Sayulita or Ushuaia?

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
  • wellness
  • day trips

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

Choose Ushuaia for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Ushuaia’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, Ushuaia 3: Sayulita leads by 77 points.
Food & drink. Sayulita 42, Ushuaia 40: Sayulita leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Sayulita 7, Ushuaia 22: Ushuaia leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Sayulita 33, Ushuaia 18: Sayulita leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Sayulita 72, Ushuaia 88: Ushuaia leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Sayulita 42, Ushuaia 14: Sayulita leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Sayulita 42, Ushuaia 40: Sayulita leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Sayulita 48, Ushuaia 45: Sayulita leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Sayulita 33, Ushuaia 22: Sayulita leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Sayulita 45, Ushuaia 42: Sayulita leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Sayulita 12, Ushuaia 10: Sayulita leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Sayulita 58, Ushuaia 26: Sayulita leads by 32 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Sayulita and Ushuaia.

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 wellness with your weighting.

Ushuaia
31match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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

Ushuaia in July

4 °Cdaytime high
0 °Cnight-time low
36 mmrain in the month
2 hsunshine a day
No seasea
8 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. Ushuaia: 1991-2020 normals, Ushuaia Aerodrome (1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSayulitaUshuaia
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaSpanish
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Argentine Peso (ARS)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-3
Emergency number911117 or 911
Elevation2 m23 m
Main airportPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)29 km from centre52 non-stop destinationsUshuaia - Malvinas Argentinas International Airport (USH)4 km from centre9 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSayulitaUshuaia
City population3,39082,615
People per km²-3,592
Museums within 10 km05
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.