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The Taj Mahal reflected in its pool, Agra
AgraThe Taj Mahal reflected in its pool
Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo

Photos: Agra by Sanket Sawale, Pexels License; Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Agra or Puerto Escondido?

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 Agra for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • prices

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

Choose Puerto Escondido for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Escondido’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. Agra 3, Puerto Escondido 82: Puerto Escondido leads by 79 points.
Food & drink. Agra 42, Puerto Escondido 48: Puerto Escondido leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Agra 80, Puerto Escondido 8: Agra leads by 72 points.
Nightlife. Agra 7, Puerto Escondido 45: Puerto Escondido leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agra 30, Puerto Escondido 78: Puerto Escondido leads by 48 points.
Day trips. Agra 70, Puerto Escondido 35: Agra leads by 35 points.
Good for families. Agra 20, Puerto Escondido 42: Puerto Escondido leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Agra 28, Puerto Escondido 40: Puerto Escondido leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Agra 38, Puerto Escondido 22: Agra leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Agra 90, Puerto Escondido 68: Agra leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agra 10, Puerto Escondido 12: Puerto Escondido leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agra 15, Puerto Escondido 58: Puerto Escondido leads by 43 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agra and Puerto Escondido.

Your match

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

Agra
36match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

Puerto Escondido
Best match
45match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Agra in July

35 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
216 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Puerto Escondido in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
116 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Agra 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.

Puerto Escondido's temperatures are measured 66 km from the centre, at Puerto Angel, Oax..

Puerto Escondido 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Agra: 1942-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Agra (6.2 km from centre). Puerto Escondido: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (65.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgraPuerto Escondido
Official languageHindi, EnglishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyIndian Rupee (INR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCM230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+5:30UTC-6
Emergency number108 or 112911
Elevation171 m60 m
Main airportAgra Airport / Agra Air Force Station (AGR)6 km from centre2 non-stop destinationsPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-9 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgraPuerto Escondido
City population1,585,70529,903
People per km²8,417-
Museums within 10 km00
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.