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Rocks and beach in Tangolunda Bay, Huatulco
HuatulcoRocks and beach in Tangolunda Bay
Turquoise water off Giftun Island, Hurghada
HurghadaTurquoise water off Giftun Island

Photos: Huatulco by Gzzz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Hurghada by Andrey Korchagin, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Huatulco or Hurghada?

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 Huatulco for

  • getting around
  • food and drink
  • day trips

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

Choose Hurghada for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Hurghada’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. Huatulco 86, Hurghada 84: Huatulco leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Huatulco 44, Hurghada 34: Huatulco leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Huatulco 15, Hurghada 14: Huatulco leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Huatulco 24, Hurghada 40: Hurghada leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Huatulco 76, Hurghada 72: Huatulco leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Huatulco 40, Hurghada 30: Huatulco leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Huatulco 56, Hurghada 62: Hurghada leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Huatulco 33, Hurghada 22: Huatulco leads by 11 points.
Shopping & style. Huatulco 20, Hurghada 24: Hurghada leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Huatulco 62, Hurghada 80: Hurghada leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Huatulco 9, Hurghada 10: Hurghada leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Huatulco 52, Hurghada 44: Huatulco leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Huatulco and Hurghada.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Huatulco
43match

Wins on getting around and food and drink with your weighting.

Hurghada
43match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Hurghada in July

37 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
14 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. Huatulco: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (42.2 km from centre). Hurghada: 1991-2020 normals, Hurguada (15.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHuatulcoHurghada
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaArabic
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Egyptian Pound (EGP)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911Police 122, ambulance 123, fire 180
Elevation220 m11 m
Main airportBahías de Huatulco International Airport (HUX)15 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsHurghada International Airport (HRG)9 km from centre111 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureHuatulcoHurghada
City population7,409214,247
Museums within 10 km01
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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). 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.