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The Story Bridge from Howard Smith Wharves, Brisbane
BrisbaneThe Story Bridge from Howard Smith Wharves
Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo

Photos: Brisbane by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Brisbane 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 Brisbane for

  • live music and the arts
  • families
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Puerto Escondido for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • 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. Brisbane 55, Puerto Escondido 82: Puerto Escondido leads by 27 points.
Food & drink. Brisbane 60, Puerto Escondido 48: Brisbane leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Brisbane 42, Puerto Escondido 8: Brisbane leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Brisbane 55, Puerto Escondido 45: Brisbane leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Brisbane 74, Puerto Escondido 78: Puerto Escondido leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Brisbane 50, Puerto Escondido 35: Brisbane leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Brisbane 78, Puerto Escondido 42: Brisbane leads by 36 points.
Getting around. Brisbane 62, Puerto Escondido 40: Brisbane leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Brisbane 45, Puerto Escondido 22: Brisbane leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Brisbane 33, Puerto Escondido 68: Puerto Escondido leads by 35 points.
Live music & performing arts. Brisbane 55, Puerto Escondido 12: Brisbane leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Brisbane 40, Puerto Escondido 58: Puerto Escondido leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Brisbane and Puerto Escondido.

Your match

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

Brisbane
Best match
54match

Wins on live music and the arts and families with your weighting.

Puerto Escondido
45match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Brisbane in July

22 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
20 °Csea
11 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. Brisbane: 1991-2020 normals, Brisbane (4.5 km from centre). Puerto Escondido: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (65.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBrisbanePuerto Escondido
Official languageEnglishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10UTC-6
Emergency number000911
Elevation0 m60 m
Main airportBrisbane International Airport (BNE)13 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrisbanePuerto Escondido
City population2,706,96629,903
People per km²171-
Museums within 10 km160
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C9 months12 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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.