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The main beach with the green hills behind, Sayulita
SayulitaThe main beach with the green hills behind
Gastown, Vancouver
VancouverGastown

Photos: Sayulita by Luisalvaz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Vancouver by Xicotencatl, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Sayulita or Vancouver?

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
  • prices
  • wellness

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

Choose Vancouver for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Vancouver’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, Vancouver 42: Sayulita leads by 38 points.
Food & drink. Sayulita 42, Vancouver 72: Vancouver leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Sayulita 7, Vancouver 42: Vancouver leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Sayulita 33, Vancouver 42: Vancouver leads by 9 points.
Nature & outdoors. Sayulita 72, Vancouver 97: Vancouver leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Sayulita 42, Vancouver 45: Vancouver leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Sayulita 42, Vancouver 72: Vancouver leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Sayulita 48, Vancouver 73: Vancouver leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Sayulita 33, Vancouver 55: Vancouver leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Sayulita 45, Vancouver 27: Sayulita leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Sayulita 12, Vancouver 52: Vancouver leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Sayulita 58, Vancouver 50: Sayulita leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Sayulita and Vancouver.

Your match

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

Sayulita
43match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Vancouver
Best match
56match

Wins on live music and the arts 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

Vancouver in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
42 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
16 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. Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSayulitaVancouver
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaFrench, English
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation2 m2 m
Main airportPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)29 km from centre52 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSayulitaVancouver
City population3,390662,248
People per km²-5,759
Museums within 10 km026
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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.