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The main beach with the green hills behind, Sayulita
SayulitaThe main beach with the green hills behind
Valletta from the water, Valletta
VallettaValletta from the water

Photos: Sayulita by Luisalvaz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Valletta by Pho Tomass, Pexels License.

Sayulita or Valletta?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches

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

Choose Valletta for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Valletta’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, Valletta 68: Sayulita leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Sayulita 42, Valletta 55: Valletta leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Sayulita 7, Valletta 76: Valletta leads by 69 points.
Nightlife. Sayulita 33, Valletta 46: Valletta leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Sayulita 72, Valletta 56: Sayulita leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Sayulita 42, Valletta 76: Valletta leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Sayulita 42, Valletta 58: Valletta leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Sayulita 48, Valletta 62: Valletta leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Sayulita 33, Valletta 38: Valletta leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Sayulita 45, Valletta 50: Valletta leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Sayulita 12, Valletta 44: Valletta leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Sayulita 58, Valletta 32: Sayulita leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Sayulita and Valletta.

Your match

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

Sayulita
43match

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

Valletta
Best match
55match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips 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

Valletta in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
25 °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. Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSayulitaValletta
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2 m56 m
Main airportPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)29 km from centre52 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre113 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureSayulitaValletta
City population3,3905,197
People per km²-6,496
Museums within 10 km016
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months6 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.