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Rocks and beach in Tangolunda Bay, Huatulco
HuatulcoRocks and beach in Tangolunda Bay
Whitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum, Palm Beach
Palm BeachWhitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum

Photos: Huatulco by Gzzz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Palm Beach by Khowald, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Huatulco or Palm Beach?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches

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

Choose Palm Beach for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Palm Beach’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, Palm Beach 82: Huatulco leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Huatulco 44, Palm Beach 47: Palm Beach leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Huatulco 15, Palm Beach 45: Palm Beach leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Huatulco 24, Palm Beach 32: Palm Beach leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Huatulco 76, Palm Beach 58: Huatulco leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Huatulco 40, Palm Beach 55: Palm Beach leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Huatulco 56, Palm Beach 62: Palm Beach leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Huatulco 33, Palm Beach 32: Huatulco leads by 1 points.
Shopping & style. Huatulco 20, Palm Beach 66: Palm Beach leads by 46 points.
Affordability. Huatulco 62, Palm Beach 12: Huatulco leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Huatulco 9, Palm Beach 45: Palm Beach leads by 36 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Huatulco 52, Palm Beach 55: Palm Beach leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Huatulco and Palm Beach.

Your match

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

Huatulco
43match

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

Palm Beach
Best match
49match

Wins on shopping and live music and the arts 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

Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °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). Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (6.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHuatulcoPalm Beach
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 m2 m
Main airportBahías de Huatulco International Airport (HUX)15 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureHuatulcoPalm Beach
City population7,4099,245
People per km²-322
Museums within 10 km04
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.