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Colourful houses along the Inn, Innsbruck
InnsbruckColourful houses along the Inn
Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo

Photos: Innsbruck by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License; Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Innsbruck or Puerto Escondido?

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 Innsbruck for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • day trips

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

Choose Puerto Escondido for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Escondido’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. Innsbruck 20, Puerto Escondido 82: Puerto Escondido leads by 62 points.
Food & drink. Innsbruck 40, Puerto Escondido 48: Puerto Escondido leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Innsbruck 58, Puerto Escondido 8: Innsbruck leads by 50 points.
Nightlife. Innsbruck 38, Puerto Escondido 45: Puerto Escondido leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Innsbruck 96, Puerto Escondido 78: Innsbruck leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Innsbruck 72, Puerto Escondido 35: Innsbruck leads by 37 points.
Good for families. Innsbruck 62, Puerto Escondido 42: Innsbruck leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Innsbruck 78, Puerto Escondido 40: Innsbruck leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Innsbruck 38, Puerto Escondido 22: Innsbruck leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Innsbruck 38, Puerto Escondido 68: Puerto Escondido leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Innsbruck 45, Puerto Escondido 12: Innsbruck leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Innsbruck 45, Puerto Escondido 58: Puerto Escondido leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Innsbruck and Puerto Escondido.

Your match

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

Innsbruck
Best match
53match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

Puerto Escondido
45match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Innsbruck in July

26 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
129 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Puerto Escondido in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
116 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
30 °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

Puerto Escondido's temperatures are measured 66 km from the centre, at Puerto Angel, Oax..

Puerto Escondido 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. Innsbruck: 1991-2020 normals, Innsbruck-Flughafen (3.3 km from centre). Puerto Escondido: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (65.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInnsbruckPuerto Escondido
Official languageGerman, Austrian Sign LanguageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation574 m60 m
Main airportInnsbruck Airport (INN)4 km from centre40 non-stop destinationsPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureInnsbruckPuerto Escondido
City population132,49929,903
People per km²1,263-
Museums within 10 km280
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.