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A canoe on the turquoise lake below the mountains, Lake Louise
Lake LouiseA canoe on the turquoise lake below the mountains
Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo

Photos: Lake Louise by Andrew Patrick Photo, Pexels License; Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Lake Louise 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 Lake Louise for

  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Puerto Escondido for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nightlife

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. Lake Louise 5, Puerto Escondido 82: Puerto Escondido leads by 77 points.
Food & drink. Lake Louise 20, Puerto Escondido 48: Puerto Escondido leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Lake Louise 7, Puerto Escondido 8: Puerto Escondido leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Lake Louise 4, Puerto Escondido 45: Puerto Escondido leads by 41 points.
Nature & outdoors. Lake Louise 97, Puerto Escondido 78: Lake Louise leads by 19 points.
Day trips. Lake Louise 33, Puerto Escondido 35: Puerto Escondido leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Lake Louise 40, Puerto Escondido 42: Puerto Escondido leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Lake Louise 28, Puerto Escondido 40: Puerto Escondido leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Lake Louise 6, Puerto Escondido 22: Puerto Escondido leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Lake Louise 9, Puerto Escondido 68: Puerto Escondido leads by 59 points.
Live music & performing arts. Lake Louise 3, Puerto Escondido 12: Puerto Escondido leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Lake Louise 42, Puerto Escondido 58: Puerto Escondido leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Lake Louise and Puerto Escondido.

Your match

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

Lake Louise
25match

Wins on nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Puerto Escondido
Best match
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.

Lake Louise in July

20 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
63 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine 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

-10°0°10°20°30°40°JFMAMJJASOND

Rainfall in the month, mm

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Lake LouisePuerto Escondido

Where the figures come from

Lake Louise 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.

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. Lake Louise: 1991-2020 normals, Yoho Park (11.2 km from centre). Puerto Escondido: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (65.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLake LouisePuerto Escondido
Official languageFrench, EnglishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number911911
Elevation1,600 m60 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)155 km from centre102 non-stop destinationsPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureLake LouisePuerto Escondido
City population-29,903
Museums within 10 km00
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.