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The Elbphilharmonie from the water, Hamburg
HamburgThe Elbphilharmonie from the water
Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo

Photos: Hamburg by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License; Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Hamburg 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 Hamburg for

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

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

Choose Puerto Escondido for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Hamburg 28, Puerto Escondido 82: Puerto Escondido leads by 54 points.
Food & drink. Hamburg 55, Puerto Escondido 48: Hamburg leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Hamburg 62, Puerto Escondido 8: Hamburg leads by 54 points.
Nightlife. Hamburg 76, Puerto Escondido 45: Hamburg leads by 31 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hamburg 52, Puerto Escondido 78: Puerto Escondido leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Hamburg 70, Puerto Escondido 35: Hamburg leads by 35 points.
Good for families. Hamburg 74, Puerto Escondido 42: Hamburg leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Hamburg 80, Puerto Escondido 40: Hamburg leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Hamburg 65, Puerto Escondido 22: Hamburg leads by 43 points.
Affordability. Hamburg 38, Puerto Escondido 68: Puerto Escondido leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hamburg 80, Puerto Escondido 12: Hamburg leads by 68 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hamburg 44, Puerto Escondido 58: Puerto Escondido leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hamburg and Puerto Escondido.

Your match

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

Hamburg
Best match
60match

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

Puerto Escondido
45match

Wins on beaches 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.

Hamburg in July

23 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
82 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
17 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. Hamburg: 1991-2020 normals, Hamburg Airport (9.3 km from centre). Puerto Escondido: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (65.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHamburgPuerto Escondido
Official languageGermanSpanish, 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
Elevation6 m60 m
Main airportHamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM)9 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureHamburgPuerto Escondido
City population1,869,47329,903
People per km²2,476-
Museums within 10 km770
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
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). 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. 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.