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Rocks and beach in Tangolunda Bay, Huatulco
HuatulcoRocks and beach in Tangolunda Bay
A canoe on the turquoise lake below the mountains, Lake Louise
Lake LouiseA canoe on the turquoise lake below the mountains

Photos: Huatulco by Gzzz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Lake Louise by Andrew Patrick Photo, Pexels License.

Huatulco or Lake Louise?

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
  • prices
  • food and drink

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

Choose Lake Louise for

  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Lake Louise’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, Lake Louise 5: Huatulco leads by 81 points.
Food & drink. Huatulco 44, Lake Louise 20: Huatulco leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Huatulco 15, Lake Louise 7: Huatulco leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Huatulco 24, Lake Louise 4: Huatulco leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Huatulco 76, Lake Louise 97: Lake Louise leads by 21 points.
Day trips. Huatulco 40, Lake Louise 33: Huatulco leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Huatulco 56, Lake Louise 40: Huatulco leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Huatulco 33, Lake Louise 28: Huatulco leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Huatulco 20, Lake Louise 6: Huatulco leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Huatulco 62, Lake Louise 9: Huatulco leads by 53 points.
Live music & performing arts. Huatulco 9, Lake Louise 3: Huatulco leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Huatulco 52, Lake Louise 42: Huatulco leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Huatulco and Lake Louise.

Your match

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

Huatulco
Best match
43match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Lake Louise
25match

Wins on 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.

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

Lake Louise in July

20 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
63 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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.

Lake Louise 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). Lake Louise: 1991-2020 normals, Yoho Park (11.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHuatulcoLake Louise
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaFrench, English
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation220 m1,600 m
Main airportBahías de Huatulco International Airport (HUX)15 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsCalgary International Airport (YYC)155 km from centre102 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHuatulcoLake Louise
City population7,409-
Museums within 10 km00
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.