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Rocks and beach in Tangolunda Bay, Huatulco
HuatulcoRocks and beach in Tangolunda Bay
Savannah City Hall and its golden dome, Savannah
SavannahSavannah City Hall and its golden dome

Photos: Huatulco by Gzzz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Savannah by Chris M Morris, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Huatulco or Savannah?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

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

Choose Savannah for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Savannah’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, Savannah 55: Huatulco leads by 31 points.
Food & drink. Huatulco 44, Savannah 58: Savannah leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Huatulco 15, Savannah 68: Savannah leads by 53 points.
Nightlife. Huatulco 24, Savannah 52: Savannah leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Huatulco 76, Savannah 48: Huatulco leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Huatulco 40, Savannah 60: Savannah leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Huatulco 56, Savannah 50: Huatulco leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Huatulco 33, Savannah 58: Savannah leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Huatulco 20, Savannah 42: Savannah leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Huatulco 62, Savannah 35: Huatulco leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Huatulco 9, Savannah 40: Savannah leads by 31 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Huatulco 52, Savannah 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 Savannah.

Your match

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

Huatulco
43match

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

Savannah
Best match
51match

Wins on culture and sights 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

Savannah in July

34 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
144 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). Savannah: 1991-2020 normals, Savannah Airport (9.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHuatulcoSavannah
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 m15 m
Main airportBahías de Huatulco International Airport (HUX)15 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsSavannah Hilton Head International Airport (SAV)12 km from centre39 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureHuatulcoSavannah
City population7,409147,780
People per km²-524
Museums within 10 km019
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months6 months

Where else could you go?

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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.