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The main beach with the green hills behind, Sayulita
SayulitaThe main beach with the green hills behind
The Limmat from Quaibrücke, Zurich
ZurichThe Limmat from Quaibrücke

Photos: Sayulita by Luisalvaz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Zurich by Daniel Kraft, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Sayulita or Zurich?

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
  • beaches

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

Choose Zurich for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Zurich’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, Zurich 45: Sayulita leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Sayulita 42, Zurich 53: Zurich leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Sayulita 7, Zurich 58: Zurich leads by 51 points.
Nightlife. Sayulita 33, Zurich 62: Zurich leads by 29 points.
Nature & outdoors. Sayulita 72, Zurich 80: Zurich leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Sayulita 42, Zurich 84: Zurich leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Sayulita 42, Zurich 76: Zurich leads by 34 points.
Getting around. Sayulita 48, Zurich 95: Zurich leads by 47 points.
Shopping & style. Sayulita 33, Zurich 66: Zurich leads by 33 points.
Affordability. Sayulita 45, Zurich 3: Sayulita leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. Sayulita 12, Zurich 70: Zurich leads by 58 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Sayulita and Zurich are level on 58.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Sayulita and Zurich.

Your match

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

Sayulita
43match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

Zurich
Best match
63match

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

Zurich in July

24 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
126 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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. Zurich: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (2.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSayulitaZurich
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2 m408 m
Main airportPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)29 km from centre52 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)9 km from centre226 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureSayulitaZurich
City population3,390440,935
People per km²-5,016
Museums within 10 km063
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
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. 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.