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Cardiff Castle, Cardiff
CardiffCardiff Castle
Santo Domingo church behind agaves, Oaxaca
OaxacaSanto Domingo church behind agaves

Photos: Cardiff by Tevfik Teker, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Oaxaca by Öskr Rck, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Cardiff or Oaxaca?

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 Cardiff for

  • beaches
  • live music and the arts
  • families

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

Choose Oaxaca for

  • food and drink
  • prices
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Oaxaca’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. Cardiff 30, Oaxaca 5: Cardiff leads by 25 points.
Food & drink. Cardiff 45, Oaxaca 84: Oaxaca leads by 39 points.
Culture & sights. Cardiff 58, Oaxaca 74: Oaxaca leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Cardiff 50, Oaxaca 40: Cardiff leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cardiff 70, Oaxaca 62: Cardiff leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Cardiff 72, Oaxaca 65: Cardiff leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Cardiff 58, Oaxaca 40: Cardiff leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Cardiff 66, Oaxaca 55: Cardiff leads by 11 points.
Shopping & style. Cardiff 50, Oaxaca 62: Oaxaca leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Cardiff 46, Oaxaca 77: Oaxaca leads by 31 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cardiff 57, Oaxaca 38: Cardiff leads by 19 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cardiff 27, Oaxaca 50: Oaxaca leads by 23 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cardiff and Oaxaca.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Cardiff
52match

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

Oaxaca
54match

Wins on food and drink 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.

Cardiff in July

20 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Oaxaca in July

28 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
80 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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

Cardiff 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.

Cardiff's sunshine is measured 83 km from the centre, at Lyneham.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre). Oaxaca: 1961-1990 normals, Oaxaca, Oax. (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCardiffOaxaca
Official languageEnglishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation41 m1,555 m
Main airportCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre30 non-stop destinationsXoxocotlán International Airport (OAX)7 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureCardiffOaxaca
City population383,536258,913
People per km²2,7343,028
Museums within 10 km910
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.