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A lifeguard stand on South Beach, Miami
MiamiA lifeguard stand on South Beach
Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo

Photos: Miami by Radomianin, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Miami 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 Miami for

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

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

Choose Puerto Escondido for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • 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. Miami 90, Puerto Escondido 82: Miami leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Miami 72, Puerto Escondido 48: Miami leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Miami 57, Puerto Escondido 8: Miami leads by 49 points.
Nightlife. Miami 82, Puerto Escondido 45: Miami leads by 37 points.
Nature & outdoors. Miami 64, Puerto Escondido 78: Puerto Escondido leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Miami 42, Puerto Escondido 35: Miami leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Miami 64, Puerto Escondido 42: Miami leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Miami 35, Puerto Escondido 40: Puerto Escondido leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Miami 71, Puerto Escondido 22: Miami leads by 49 points.
Affordability. Miami 27, Puerto Escondido 68: Puerto Escondido leads by 41 points.
Live music & performing arts. Miami 55, Puerto Escondido 12: Miami leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Miami 44, Puerto Escondido 58: Puerto Escondido leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Miami and Puerto Escondido.

Your match

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

Miami
Best match
59match

Wins on culture and sights and shopping with your weighting.

Puerto Escondido
45match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Miami in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
186 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °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. Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre). Puerto Escondido: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (65.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMiamiPuerto Escondido
Official language-Spanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number911911
Elevation2 m60 m
Main airportMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre198 non-stop destinationsPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureMiamiPuerto Escondido
City population442,24129,903
People per km²3,046-
Museums within 10 km170
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 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.