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The main beach with the green hills behind, Sayulita
SayulitaThe main beach with the green hills behind
The Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal, Venice
VeniceThe Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal

Photos: Sayulita by Luisalvaz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Venice by David Vives, Pexels License.

Sayulita or Venice?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices
  • beaches

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

Choose Venice for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Venice’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, Venice 56: Sayulita leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. Sayulita 42, Venice 60: Venice leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Sayulita 7, Venice 94: Venice leads by 87 points.
Nightlife. Sayulita 33, Venice 27: Sayulita leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Sayulita 72, Venice 45: Sayulita leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Sayulita 42, Venice 86: Venice leads by 44 points.
Good for families. Sayulita 42, Venice 45: Venice leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Sayulita 48, Venice 68: Venice leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Sayulita 33, Venice 57: Venice leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Sayulita 45, Venice 20: Sayulita leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Sayulita 12, Venice 62: Venice leads by 50 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Sayulita 58, Venice 40: Sayulita leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Sayulita and Venice.

Your match

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

Sayulita
43match

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

Venice
Best match
55match

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

Venice in July

29 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
61 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 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.

Venice 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.

Venice's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Treviso / S. Angelo.

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. Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Venezia / Tessera (6.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSayulitaVenice
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaItalian
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2 m2 m
Main airportPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)29 km from centre52 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSayulitaVenice
City population3,390250,369
People per km²-602
Museums within 10 km052
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
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. 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.