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The Japanese Covered Bridge, Hoi An
Hoi AnThe Japanese Covered Bridge
Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo

Photos: Hoi An by François Guerraz, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Hoi An 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 Hoi An for

  • culture and sights
  • shopping
  • food and drink

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

Choose Puerto Escondido for

  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors
  • 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. Hoi An 72, Puerto Escondido 82: Puerto Escondido leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Hoi An 68, Puerto Escondido 48: Hoi An leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Hoi An 66, Puerto Escondido 8: Hoi An leads by 58 points.
Nightlife. Hoi An 28, Puerto Escondido 45: Puerto Escondido leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hoi An 63, Puerto Escondido 78: Puerto Escondido leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Hoi An 50, Puerto Escondido 35: Hoi An leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Hoi An 58, Puerto Escondido 42: Hoi An leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Hoi An 48, Puerto Escondido 40: Hoi An leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Hoi An 57, Puerto Escondido 22: Hoi An leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Hoi An 88, Puerto Escondido 68: Hoi An leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hoi An 24, Puerto Escondido 12: Hoi An leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hoi An 65, Puerto Escondido 58: Hoi An leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hoi An and Puerto Escondido.

Your match

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

Hoi An
Best match
57match

Wins on culture and sights and shopping with your weighting.

Puerto Escondido
45match

Wins on nightlife 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.

Hoi An in July

35 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 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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Hoi AnPuerto Escondido

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. Hoi An: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (23.5 km from centre). Puerto Escondido: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (65.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHoi AnPuerto Escondido
Official languageVietnameseSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyDong (VND)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-6
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114911
Elevation13 m60 m
Main airportDa Nang International Airport (DAD)23 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-9 days

By the numbers

MeasureHoi AnPuerto Escondido
City population121,71629,903
Museums within 10 km50
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.