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Main Street in winter with the mountains behind, Breckenridge
BreckenridgeMain Street in winter with the mountains behind
Rocks and beach in Tangolunda Bay, Huatulco
HuatulcoRocks and beach in Tangolunda Bay

Photos: Breckenridge by Jeff Gunn, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Huatulco by Gzzz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Breckenridge or Huatulco?

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 Breckenridge for

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Huatulco for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Huatulco’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. Breckenridge 4, Huatulco 86: Huatulco leads by 82 points.
Food & drink. Breckenridge 33, Huatulco 44: Huatulco leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Breckenridge 20, Huatulco 15: Breckenridge leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Breckenridge 30, Huatulco 24: Breckenridge leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Breckenridge 90, Huatulco 76: Breckenridge leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Breckenridge 44, Huatulco 40: Breckenridge leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Breckenridge 60, Huatulco 56: Breckenridge leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Breckenridge 62, Huatulco 33: Breckenridge leads by 29 points.
Shopping & style. Breckenridge 25, Huatulco 20: Breckenridge leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Breckenridge 10, Huatulco 62: Huatulco leads by 52 points.
Live music & performing arts. Breckenridge 32, Huatulco 9: Breckenridge leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Breckenridge 30, Huatulco 52: Huatulco leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Breckenridge and Huatulco.

Your match

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

Breckenridge
37match

Wins on getting around and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Huatulco
Best match
43match

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.

Breckenridge in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
41 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Huatulco in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
156 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

Breckenridge's temperatures are measured 38 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Breckenridge 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.

Huatulco's temperatures are measured 42 km from the centre, at Puerto Angel, Oax..

Huatulco's station stands 177 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Huatulco 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. Breckenridge: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (37.7 km from centre). Huatulco: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (42.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBreckenridgeHuatulco
Official language-Spanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,926 m220 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)124 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsBahías de Huatulco International Airport (HUX)15 km from centre13 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBreckenridgeHuatulco
City population5,0787,409
People per km²332-
Museums within 10 km00
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

Where else could you go?

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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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.