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Rocks and beach in Tangolunda Bay, Huatulco
HuatulcoRocks and beach in Tangolunda Bay
Brooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan, New York
New YorkBrooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan

Photos: Huatulco by Gzzz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; New York by Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Huatulco or New York?

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

  • prices
  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose New York for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on New York’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, New York 50: Huatulco leads by 36 points.
Food & drink. Huatulco 44, New York 92: New York leads by 48 points.
Culture & sights. Huatulco 15, New York 89: New York leads by 74 points.
Nightlife. Huatulco 24, New York 97: New York leads by 73 points.
Nature & outdoors. Huatulco 76, New York 55: Huatulco leads by 21 points.
Day trips. Huatulco 40, New York 68: New York leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Huatulco 56, New York 70: New York leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Huatulco 33, New York 82: New York leads by 49 points.
Shopping & style. Huatulco 20, New York 97: New York leads by 77 points.
Affordability. Huatulco 62, New York 12: Huatulco leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Huatulco 9, New York 99: New York leads by 90 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Huatulco 52, New York 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 New York.

Your match

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

Huatulco
43match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

New York
Best match
71match

Wins on live music and the arts 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

New York in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
107 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
22 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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HuatulcoNew York

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). New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHuatulcoNew York
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya-
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation220 m25 m
Main airportBahías de Huatulco International Airport (HUX)15 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHuatulcoNew York
City population7,4098,804,190
People per km²-7,256
Museums within 10 km0157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months3 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.