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Rocks and beach in Tangolunda Bay, Huatulco
HuatulcoRocks and beach in Tangolunda Bay
The Johannesburg skyline and the Hillbrow Tower, Johannesburg
JohannesburgThe Johannesburg skyline and the Hillbrow Tower

Photos: Huatulco by Gzzz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Johannesburg by K, Pexels License.

Huatulco or Johannesburg?

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

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Johannesburg for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Johannesburg’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, Johannesburg 5: Huatulco leads by 81 points.
Food & drink. Huatulco 44, Johannesburg 58: Johannesburg leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Huatulco 15, Johannesburg 56: Johannesburg leads by 41 points.
Nightlife. Huatulco 24, Johannesburg 62: Johannesburg leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Huatulco 76, Johannesburg 55: Huatulco leads by 21 points.
Day trips. Huatulco 40, Johannesburg 52: Johannesburg leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Huatulco 56, Johannesburg 42: Huatulco leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Huatulco 33, Johannesburg 18: Huatulco leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Huatulco 20, Johannesburg 58: Johannesburg leads by 38 points.
Affordability. Huatulco 62, Johannesburg 72: Johannesburg leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Huatulco 9, Johannesburg 55: Johannesburg leads by 46 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Huatulco 52, Johannesburg 28: Huatulco leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Huatulco and Johannesburg.

Your match

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

Huatulco
43match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Johannesburg
Best match
47match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights 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

Johannesburg in July

19 °Cdaytime high
4 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
No seasea
11 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). Johannesburg: 2005-2019 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Johannesburg B / Roosevelt Park (7.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHuatulcoJohannesburg
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaEnglish, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Venda, Northern Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Southern Ndebele, South African Sign Language
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Rand (ZAR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCMN230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+2
Emergency number911112
Elevation220 m1,753 m
Main airportBahías de Huatulco International Airport (HUX)15 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsO.R. Tambo International Airport (JNB)22 km from centre83 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHuatulcoJohannesburg
City population7,4094,803,262
People per km²-2,922
Museums within 10 km014
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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.