Puerto Vallarta Guide for Digital Nomads

Weather in Puerto Vallarta by month

The warmest month is May, at about 90°F (32°C) in the afternoon, and the coolest is December, at about 77°F (25°C).

The most rain falls in August.

From NASA POWER's monthly climate averages for the point (a grid about 50 km across, so a coastal or mountain city can read a little off).

Internet in Puerto Vallarta

In M-Lab's open speed tests within 25 km of Puerto Vallarta, half came in above 54 Mbps download and 28 Mbps upload, and the fastest quarter of lines above 111 Mbps.

That's 110,219 download tests from September 2025 to September 2026.

The typical figure counts every line, cheap and mobile ones too; a fiber line in a good apartment or coworking space is closer to the fastest quarter.

Test yours when you get there with my internet speed test.

Cost of living in Puerto Vallarta

One person spends about $1,673 a month in Puerto Vallarta, with a furnished place to stay:

The rent is estimated from Mexico's housing prices, as Inside Airbnb doesn't cover Puerto Vallarta.

The rest is what a one-person US household spends (the Bureau of Labor Statistics' 2024 survey), at Mexico's prices for each (the World Bank's 2021 price comparison).

Coworking, insurance and flights come on top.

Air quality in Puerto Vallarta

By an estimate, the air in Puerto Vallarta carries about 13 µg/m³ of fine particles (PM2.5) over a year, 2.5 times the WHO's guideline of 5 µg/m³.

The cleanest month is January, at about 5 µg/m³, and the haziest is May.

In May it climbs to about 42 µg/m³, so plan around it if you're sensitive to smoke or haze.

No open air quality station is within 25 km of Puerto Vallarta, so these are estimates from Copernicus's CAMS air model for the surrounding area (an 80 km grid, 2023 to 2025, CC BY 4.0), adjusted to what stations measure elsewhere.

Take them as a guide: the model can be well off in big cities, and a measured figure replaces it once a station opens.

Is Puerto Vallarta safe?

The US State Department rates Mexico Level 2 ("Exercise increased caution", updated 2026-05-29), the same level it gives France, Germany, the UK and Spain.

Levels 1 and 2 are both everyday travel; the US only asks you to reconsider a trip at Level 3.

Some advisories raise the level for parts of a country, so read the full advisory before you book.

Work and stay in Puerto Vallarta

Where to work and live with other remote workers, from each finder:

See them all on a map, with hours, photos and directions, in the coworking space finder and free Wi-Fi spots.

Visas, taxes and residency in Mexico

Before you plan a long stay, check what your passport allows and what staying does to your taxes:

• Can you stay? – see where your passport goes without a visa on the visa-free countries map, and whether Mexico has a visa for remote workers in the digital nomad visa finder
• Tax – compare Mexico's income tax with other countries in tax rates by country
• Foreign income – Mexico taxes its tax residents on their income from anywhere; see the rule and its exceptions on the territorial tax map

Each tool reads the official rules, so the answer is for your own passport and income.

Money in Puerto Vallarta

A card with no foreign fee and an account that holds several currencies make a stay much cheaper:

• Accounts – the best bank accounts for digital nomads, by where you live
• Cards – what a card costs you abroad in the card fees abroad calculator
• Sending money – the cheapest way to move money there in the money transfer comparison

The finders show only accounts and cards you can open from where you live.

Time zone

Puerto Vallarta runs on Mexico City time (America/Mexico_City).

See how many working hours you'd share with your clients or team in the time zone overlap calculator.