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The Gateway of India under a blue sky, Mumbai
MumbaiThe Gateway of India under a blue sky
Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo

Photos: Mumbai by Shubam Bhasin, Pexels License; Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Mumbai 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 Mumbai for

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

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

Choose Puerto Escondido for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Mumbai 18, Puerto Escondido 82: Puerto Escondido leads by 64 points.
Food & drink. Mumbai 82, Puerto Escondido 48: Mumbai leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. Mumbai 70, Puerto Escondido 8: Mumbai leads by 62 points.
Nightlife. Mumbai 52, Puerto Escondido 45: Mumbai leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Mumbai 55, Puerto Escondido 78: Puerto Escondido leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Mumbai 48, Puerto Escondido 35: Mumbai leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Mumbai 35, Puerto Escondido 42: Puerto Escondido leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Mumbai 38, Puerto Escondido 40: Puerto Escondido leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Mumbai 66, Puerto Escondido 22: Mumbai leads by 44 points.
Affordability. Mumbai 72, Puerto Escondido 68: Mumbai leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Mumbai 55, Puerto Escondido 12: Mumbai leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Mumbai 24, Puerto Escondido 58: Puerto Escondido leads by 34 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Mumbai and Puerto Escondido.

Your match

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

Mumbai
Best match
51match

Wins on culture and sights and shopping 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.

Mumbai in July

31 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
860 mmrain in the month
2 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 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. Mumbai: 1991-2020 normals, Bombay / Santacruz (5.4 km from centre). Puerto Escondido: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (65.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMumbaiPuerto Escondido
Official languageHindi, EnglishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyIndian Rupee (INR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCM230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+5:30UTC-6
Emergency number108 or 112911
Elevation14 m60 m
Main airportChhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (BOM)2 km from centre122 non-stop destinationsPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-9 days

By the numbers

MeasureMumbaiPuerto Escondido
City population15,414,28829,903
People per km²25,563-
Museums within 10 km10
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.