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The Friedrichsbad, the historic bathhouse, Baden-Baden
Baden-BadenThe Friedrichsbad, the historic bathhouse
Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo

Photos: Baden-Baden by Kent Wang, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Baden-Baden 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 Baden-Baden for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

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

Choose Puerto Escondido for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nightlife

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. Baden-Baden 8, Puerto Escondido 82: Puerto Escondido leads by 74 points.
Food & drink. Baden-Baden 45, Puerto Escondido 48: Puerto Escondido leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Baden-Baden 52, Puerto Escondido 8: Baden-Baden leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Baden-Baden 15, Puerto Escondido 45: Puerto Escondido leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baden-Baden 70, Puerto Escondido 78: Puerto Escondido leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Baden-Baden 78, Puerto Escondido 35: Baden-Baden leads by 43 points.
Good for families. Baden-Baden 50, Puerto Escondido 42: Baden-Baden leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Baden-Baden 62, Puerto Escondido 40: Baden-Baden leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Baden-Baden 38, Puerto Escondido 22: Baden-Baden leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Baden-Baden 30, Puerto Escondido 68: Puerto Escondido leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baden-Baden 58, Puerto Escondido 12: Baden-Baden leads by 46 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baden-Baden 96, Puerto Escondido 58: Baden-Baden leads by 38 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baden-Baden and Puerto Escondido.

Your match

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

Baden-Baden
Best match
50match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights with your weighting.

Puerto Escondido
45match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Baden-Baden in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
117 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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

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. Baden-Baden: 1991-2020 normals, Baden-Baden-Geroldsau (3.9 km from centre). Puerto Escondido: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (65.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBaden-BadenPuerto Escondido
Official languageGermanSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation181 m60 m
Main airportKarlsruhe Baden-Baden Airport (FKB)12 km from centre43 non-stop destinationsPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBaden-BadenPuerto Escondido
City population56,95229,903
People per km²406-
Museums within 10 km110
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.