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Praia Mole in Florianopolis, Florianopolis
FlorianopolisPraia Mole in Florianopolis
Rocks and beach in Tangolunda Bay, Huatulco
HuatulcoRocks and beach in Tangolunda Bay

Photos: Florianopolis by Papa Pic, CC0; Huatulco by Gzzz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Florianopolis 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 Florianopolis for

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

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

Choose Huatulco for

  • wellness
  • getting around
  • prices

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. Florianopolis 85, Huatulco 86: Huatulco leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Florianopolis 58, Huatulco 44: Florianopolis leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Florianopolis 33, Huatulco 15: Florianopolis leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Florianopolis 60, Huatulco 24: Florianopolis leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. Florianopolis 78, Huatulco 76: Florianopolis leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Florianopolis 50, Huatulco 40: Florianopolis leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Florianopolis 60, Huatulco 56: Florianopolis leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Florianopolis 28, Huatulco 33: Huatulco leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Florianopolis 33, Huatulco 20: Florianopolis leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Florianopolis 60, Huatulco 62: Huatulco leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Florianopolis 28, Huatulco 9: Florianopolis leads by 19 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Florianopolis 45, Huatulco 52: Huatulco leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Florianopolis and Huatulco.

Your match

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

Florianopolis
Best match
52match

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

Huatulco
43match

Wins on wellness and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Florianopolis in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
91 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
11 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

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. Florianopolis: 1991-2020 normals, Florianopolis (1.7 km from centre). Huatulco: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (42.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFlorianopolisHuatulco
Official languagePortugueseSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCN60 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC-6
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193911
Elevation3 m220 m
Main airportHercílio Luz International Airport (FLN)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsBahías de Huatulco International Airport (HUX)15 km from centre13 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorianopolisHuatulco
City population587,4867,409
People per km²870-
Museums within 10 km110
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 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.