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The railway viaduct over the canal, Castlefield, Manchester
ManchesterThe railway viaduct over the canal, Castlefield
Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo

Photos: Manchester by IIya Kuzhekin, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Manchester 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 Manchester for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

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

Choose Puerto Escondido for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • prices

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. Manchester 9, Puerto Escondido 82: Puerto Escondido leads by 73 points.
Food & drink. Manchester 51, Puerto Escondido 48: Manchester leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Manchester 50, Puerto Escondido 8: Manchester leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Manchester 72, Puerto Escondido 45: Manchester leads by 27 points.
Nature & outdoors. Manchester 64, Puerto Escondido 78: Puerto Escondido leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Manchester 77, Puerto Escondido 35: Manchester leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Manchester 58, Puerto Escondido 42: Manchester leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Manchester 68, Puerto Escondido 40: Manchester leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Manchester 62, Puerto Escondido 22: Manchester leads by 40 points.
Affordability. Manchester 42, Puerto Escondido 68: Puerto Escondido leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Manchester 74, Puerto Escondido 12: Manchester leads by 62 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Manchester 15, Puerto Escondido 58: Puerto Escondido leads by 43 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Manchester and Puerto Escondido.

Your match

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

Manchester
Best match
54match

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

Puerto Escondido
45match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Manchester in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
60 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
17 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. Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre). Puerto Escondido: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (65.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureManchesterPuerto Escondido
Official languageEnglishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation38 m60 m
Main airportManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre211 non-stop destinationsPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureManchesterPuerto Escondido
City population547,62729,903
People per km²4,737-
Museums within 10 km280
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
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.