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Fort Lovrijenac above the sea, Dubrovnik
DubrovnikFort Lovrijenac above the sea
Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo

Photos: Dubrovnik by Natalia Semenova, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Dubrovnik 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 Dubrovnik for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • getting around

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

Choose Puerto Escondido for

  • prices
  • wellness
  • beaches

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. Dubrovnik 74, Puerto Escondido 82: Puerto Escondido leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Dubrovnik 47, Puerto Escondido 48: Puerto Escondido leads by 1 points.
Culture & sights. Dubrovnik 72, Puerto Escondido 8: Dubrovnik leads by 64 points.
Nightlife. Dubrovnik 37, Puerto Escondido 45: Puerto Escondido leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Dubrovnik 70, Puerto Escondido 78: Puerto Escondido leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Dubrovnik 66, Puerto Escondido 35: Dubrovnik leads by 31 points.
Good for families. Dubrovnik 50, Puerto Escondido 42: Dubrovnik leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Dubrovnik 60, Puerto Escondido 40: Dubrovnik leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Dubrovnik 25, Puerto Escondido 22: Dubrovnik leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Dubrovnik 28, Puerto Escondido 68: Puerto Escondido leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Dubrovnik 25, Puerto Escondido 12: Dubrovnik leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Dubrovnik 32, Puerto Escondido 58: Puerto Escondido leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Dubrovnik and Puerto Escondido.

Your match

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

Dubrovnik
Best match
49match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

Puerto Escondido
45match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Dubrovnik in July

29 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
29 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 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

Dubrovnik 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.

Dubrovnik's sunshine is measured 83 km from the centre, at Mostar.

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. Dubrovnik: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dubrovnik / Cilipi (15.3 km from centre). Puerto Escondido: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (65.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDubrovnikPuerto Escondido
Official languageCroatianSpanish, 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
Elevation10 m60 m
Main airportDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre76 non-stop destinationsPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubrovnikPuerto Escondido
City population41,56229,903
Museums within 10 km70
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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). 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. 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.