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A palm-lined Hollywood street with the Hollywood Sign behind, Los Angeles
Los AngelesA palm-lined Hollywood street with the Hollywood Sign behind
Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo

Photos: Los Angeles by BenSherman, Public domain; Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles for

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

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

Choose Puerto Escondido for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • getting around

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. Los Angeles 60, Puerto Escondido 82: Puerto Escondido leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Los Angeles 84, Puerto Escondido 48: Los Angeles leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. Los Angeles 66, Puerto Escondido 8: Los Angeles leads by 58 points.
Nightlife. Los Angeles 67, Puerto Escondido 45: Los Angeles leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Angeles 80, Puerto Escondido 78: Los Angeles leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Los Angeles 60, Puerto Escondido 35: Los Angeles leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Los Angeles 84, Puerto Escondido 42: Los Angeles leads by 42 points.
Getting around. Los Angeles 25, Puerto Escondido 40: Puerto Escondido leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Los Angeles 80, Puerto Escondido 22: Los Angeles leads by 58 points.
Affordability. Los Angeles 24, Puerto Escondido 68: Puerto Escondido leads by 44 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Angeles 83, Puerto Escondido 12: Los Angeles leads by 71 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Angeles 60, Puerto Escondido 58: Los Angeles leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Angeles and Puerto Escondido.

Your match

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

Los Angeles
Best match
64match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights with your weighting.

Puerto Escondido
45match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Los Angeles in July

24 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
14 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. Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre). Puerto Escondido: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (65.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos AngelesPuerto Escondido
Official language-Spanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number911911
Elevation106 m60 m
Main airportLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre177 non-stop destinationsPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos AngelesPuerto Escondido
City population3,898,74729,903
People per km²2,994-
Museums within 10 km390
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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.