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The pyramids of Giza, Cairo
CairoThe pyramids of Giza
Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo

Photos: Cairo by Ricardo Liberato, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Cairo 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 Cairo for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Cairo’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. Cairo 10, Puerto Escondido 82: Puerto Escondido leads by 72 points.
Food & drink. Cairo 60, Puerto Escondido 48: Cairo leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Cairo 96, Puerto Escondido 8: Cairo leads by 88 points.
Nightlife. Cairo 48, Puerto Escondido 45: Cairo leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cairo 30, Puerto Escondido 78: Puerto Escondido leads by 48 points.
Day trips. Cairo 66, Puerto Escondido 35: Cairo leads by 31 points.
Good for families. Cairo 32, Puerto Escondido 42: Puerto Escondido leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Cairo 35, Puerto Escondido 40: Puerto Escondido leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Cairo 58, Puerto Escondido 22: Cairo leads by 36 points.
Affordability. Cairo 95, Puerto Escondido 68: Cairo leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cairo 50, Puerto Escondido 12: Cairo leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cairo 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: Cairo and Puerto Escondido.

Your match

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

Cairo
Best match
50match

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

Puerto Escondido
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.

Cairo in July

36 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine 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

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. Cairo: 1991-2020 normals, Helwan (21.9 km from centre). Puerto Escondido: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (65.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCairoPuerto Escondido
Official languageArabicSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-6
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180911
Elevation23 m60 m
Main airportCairo International Airport (CAI)17 km from centre127 non-stop destinationsPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureCairoPuerto Escondido
City population9,801,53629,903
People per km²18,564-
Museums within 10 km480
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). 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.