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The main beach with the green hills behind, Sayulita
SayulitaThe main beach with the green hills behind
Palms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue, West Palm Beach
West Palm BeachPalms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue

Photos: Sayulita by Luisalvaz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; West Palm Beach by Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Sayulita or West Palm Beach?

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

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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

Choose West Palm Beach for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on West Palm Beach’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 and West Palm Beach are level on 80.
Food & drink. Sayulita 42, West Palm Beach 52: West Palm Beach leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Sayulita 7, West Palm Beach 42: West Palm Beach leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Sayulita 33, West Palm Beach 36: West Palm Beach leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Sayulita 72, West Palm Beach 58: Sayulita leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Sayulita 42, West Palm Beach 55: West Palm Beach leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Sayulita 42, West Palm Beach 66: West Palm Beach leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Sayulita 48, West Palm Beach 38: Sayulita leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Sayulita 33, West Palm Beach 64: West Palm Beach leads by 31 points.
Affordability. Sayulita 45, West Palm Beach 23: Sayulita leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Sayulita 12, West Palm Beach 47: West Palm Beach leads by 35 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Sayulita 58, West Palm Beach 44: Sayulita leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Sayulita and West Palm Beach.

Your match

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

Sayulita
43match

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

West Palm Beach
Best match
50match

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
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

West Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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SayulitaWest Palm Beach

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. West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSayulitaWest Palm Beach
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya-
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation2 m6 m
Main airportPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)29 km from centre52 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSayulitaWest Palm Beach
City population3,390117,415
People per km²-786
Museums within 10 km04
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 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.