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Rocks and beach in Tangolunda Bay, Huatulco
HuatulcoRocks and beach in Tangolunda Bay
The Grand Lisboa above the Macau skyline, Macau
MacauThe Grand Lisboa above the Macau skyline

Photos: Huatulco by Gzzz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Macau by tian Jin, Pexels License.

Huatulco or Macau?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • prices

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

Choose Macau for

  • culture and sights
  • shopping
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Macau’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, Macau 24: Huatulco leads by 62 points.
Food & drink. Huatulco 44, Macau 77: Macau leads by 33 points.
Culture & sights. Huatulco 15, Macau 62: Macau leads by 47 points.
Nightlife. Huatulco 24, Macau 40: Macau leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Huatulco 76, Macau 5: Huatulco leads by 71 points.
Day trips. Huatulco 40, Macau 52: Macau leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Huatulco 56, Macau 48: Huatulco leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Huatulco 33, Macau 60: Macau leads by 27 points.
Shopping & style. Huatulco 20, Macau 58: Macau leads by 38 points.
Affordability. Huatulco 62, Macau 44: Huatulco leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Huatulco 9, Macau 36: Macau leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Huatulco 52, Macau 40: Huatulco leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Huatulco and Macau.

Your match

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

Huatulco
43match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches with your weighting.

Macau
Best match
46match

Wins on culture and sights and shopping 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

Macau in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
281 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
29 °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

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). Macau: 1991-2020 normals, Taipa (3.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHuatulcoMacau
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaPortuguese, Cantonese, Standard Chinese
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Pataca (MOP)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzFGM220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+8
Emergency number911999
Elevation220 m22 m
Main airportBahías de Huatulco International Airport (HUX)15 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsMacau International Airport (MFM)7 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days-

By the numbers

MeasureHuatulcoMacau
City population7,409682,100
People per km²-5,916
Museums within 10 km028
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months8 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.