Air Pollution | 65.54 | High | |
Drinking Water Pollution and Inaccessibility | 40.71 | Moderate | |
Dissatisfaction with Garbage Disposal | 53.79 | Moderate | |
Dirty and Untidy | 60.71 | High | |
Noise and Light Pollution | 69.85 | High | |
Water Pollution | 56.62 | Moderate | |
Dissatisfaction to Spend Time in the City | 63.89 | High | |
Dissatisfaction with Green and Parks in the City | 45.59 | Moderate |
Air quality | 34.46 | Low | |
Drinking Water Quality and Accessibility | 59.29 | Moderate | |
Garbage Disposal Satisfaction | 46.21 | Moderate | |
Clean and Tidy | 39.29 | Low | |
Quiet and No Problem with Night Lights | 30.15 | Low | |
Water Quality | 43.38 | Moderate | |
Comfortable to Spend Time in the City | 36.11 | Low | |
Quality of Green and Parks | 54.41 | Moderate |
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Last update: February 2019
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If the value is 0, it means it is perceived as very low, and if the value is 100, it means it is perceived as very high.
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12 Comments so far
Going home. Will have to make a decision then
When we were in Mexico City last month my husband and I both caught colds. Mine hung on for weeks.
Is it the air quality? I certainly suspect so!
The worst sinus infection I got was on a bus tour in Europe (triggered in Barcelona, similar topography to PVR) and the A/C on the bus kept me sick for 3 weeks.
I loved PVR (food, people, sights & activities) but will definitely hold off on going back I think.
I agree with Jeff about the buses and cabs. PVR has similar topography to Los Angeles and Barcelona where the air sits all day long. According to Numbeo the PVR air pollution is similar as those two cities. What the main difference is with PVR is the population isn't even 1/4th of either of those cities and half the economy is tourism based. I would guess the per capita # of cars on the road in PVR is also less than LA or Barcelona. I didn't see any big industrial areas flying into the city so part of the problem must be poor emission controls or regulations on the cars and buses (especially the buses!). Now these controls would drive prices up which could keep tourists away but so will the smog for those who are affected by it. All the buses are probably 30 years old and a lot of the cabs are 10-15 years.
It would be great if a small hotel or airport tax is introduced to pay to get these upgraded.
Especially for the residents of the city who live there year round.
This city is dying from pollution,
I Just got back from six weeks stay near downtown,
Having been to Vallarta many times over twenty years ago
It was really heartbreaking to see and breath the heavily polluted air
Definitely reminded me of being in mexico city and Los angeles
Thanks doctor adams for documenting this.
the only days one could see across the bay were after a big rain storm.
I hiked up to the hill where the cross stands and you could see the heavy haze
Walk down the streets of downtown for a couple hours and you taste it for a whole
Day. Only when tourism and property values in vallarta plummets will maybe be something done
How bout start with mandatory emission controls on all taxis and busses?
Straight piped diesels in this day and age??
In canada even off road sump trucks have emission controls.
Shame on you mexican officials for trying to buy off doctor Adams results...
Vallarta tourist businesses its in tour best interest to pursue this before all your businesses
Fail once enough people sick of the pollution vote with their feet and find somewhere else...
I was asked to visit Puerto Vallarta as their special guest several times last year. They wanted to know the Truth about the Air Pollution in Puerto Vallarta. While I was in Puerto Vallarta I completed numerous Air Pollution tests. The Good news is that the Air Pollution is not as Bad as Mexico City. The Air Pollution test results did indicate very clearly that the Air Pollution in Puerto Vallarta today is nearly as bad as the Air Pollution in and around Los Angeles California today.
I showed my Puerto Vallarta Air Pollution results to several city & several state Politicians
in both Puerto Vallarta and in that state Capital. I also showed them my US EPA Credentials.
I was treated with a great deal of Respect. I was also offered a Nice Cash Reward by several Mexican politicians if I would discard my Puerto Vallarta Air Pollution test results. I said I would think about it. I then quickly departed Mexico with all my test results. My advice to every one who lives in Puerto Vallarta today, is relocate to another city in Mexico ASAP where there is NO serious air pollution, if you can find a city in Mexico without any serious air pollution. The Air Pollution in Puerto Vallarta is extremely unhealthy and dangerous to all humans visiting or living in Puerto Vallarta. It will get much worse as time goes on.
with exhaust fumes. I gag every time I get in a taxi who then drives up behind
one of the hundreds of buses and tourist buses belching out black smoke.
In the two months I have been here this is how it has affected me. The second week
I got here I got a really really bad bronchitis. I felt like I would choke to death.
I had to go find a doctor who then gave me 4 prescriptions. I felt like I was literally
drowning in fluid in my lungs. Well, even with the antibiotics that lasted 3 weeks.
I then had a "spell of wellness" for two weeks and it all came back again. I have
dark circles under my eyes. This is not good! The endless coughing just wears one out.
I had thought about moving from my little apt. up to Nuevo Vallarta but wanted to find out
about air quality so I started searching and that is how I found this thread.
I did notice right away under my arrival in PV that there is a constant grey haze that
never disperses. I knew that was not good. I asked several people about the haze and they
were dumber then dumb about it. I guess no one looks up.
I am up a hill with some 130 steps to ground level but I can smell the horrible exhaust pollution
from the highway wafting up the hill.
I have allergies and apparently living here is not going to be good for me.
I am disappointed and now have to look to live elsewhere but where is the question.
Honestly, I don't know how the locals survive here working everyday in the many little shops
along the bus route from Old Town/Romantic Zone up to the Hotel Zone. Their lungs must be black
with soot. I feel sorry for them because at least I can leave and most of them can't nor do they
connect the bad air with sickness.
I didn't know anything about the PV curse until this thread but I am very glad to have found out
about it. Now I know what I have to do...............MOVE.