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The church of San Estanislao at Altos de Chavón, La Romana
La RomanaThe church of San Estanislao at Altos de Chavón
Santo Domingo church behind agaves, Oaxaca
OaxacaSanto Domingo church behind agaves

Photos: La Romana by Edgar El, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Oaxaca by Öskr Rck, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

La Romana or Oaxaca?

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 La Romana for

  • beaches
  • families

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

Choose Oaxaca for

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Oaxaca’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. La Romana 84, Oaxaca 5: La Romana leads by 79 points.
Food & drink. La Romana 38, Oaxaca 84: Oaxaca leads by 46 points.
Culture & sights. La Romana 24, Oaxaca 74: Oaxaca leads by 50 points.
Nightlife. La Romana 30, Oaxaca 40: Oaxaca leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Romana and Oaxaca are level on 62.
Day trips. La Romana 52, Oaxaca 65: Oaxaca leads by 13 points.
Good for families. La Romana 56, Oaxaca 40: La Romana leads by 16 points.
Getting around. La Romana 24, Oaxaca 55: Oaxaca leads by 31 points.
Shopping & style. La Romana 28, Oaxaca 62: Oaxaca leads by 34 points.
Affordability. La Romana 50, Oaxaca 77: Oaxaca leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Romana 17, Oaxaca 38: Oaxaca leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Romana 44, Oaxaca 50: Oaxaca leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Romana and Oaxaca.

Your match

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

La Romana
42match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Oaxaca
Best match
54match

Wins on culture and sights and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

La Romana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
87 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Oaxaca in July

28 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
80 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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

La Romana's temperatures are measured 65 km from the centre, at Punta Cana.

La Romana 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. La Romana: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Punta Cana (65.4 km from centre). Oaxaca: 1961-1990 normals, Oaxaca, Oax. (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa RomanaOaxaca
Official languageSpanishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyDominican Peso (DOP)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC-6
Emergency number911911
Elevation10 m1,555 m
Main airportCasa De Campo International Airport (LRM)7 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsXoxocotlán International Airport (OAX)7 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa RomanaOaxaca
City population139,238258,913
People per km²5123,028
Museums within 10 km010
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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. 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.