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The SkyWheel by the beach, Myrtle Beach
Myrtle BeachThe SkyWheel by the beach
Santo Domingo church behind agaves, Oaxaca
OaxacaSanto Domingo church behind agaves

Photos: Myrtle Beach by The ed17, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Oaxaca by Öskr Rck, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Myrtle Beach or Oaxaca?

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 Myrtle Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nightlife

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

Choose Oaxaca for

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Oaxaca’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. Myrtle Beach 84, Oaxaca 5: Myrtle Beach leads by 79 points.
Food & drink. Myrtle Beach 38, Oaxaca 84: Oaxaca leads by 46 points.
Culture & sights. Myrtle Beach 20, Oaxaca 74: Oaxaca leads by 54 points.
Nightlife. Myrtle Beach 42, Oaxaca 40: Myrtle Beach leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Myrtle Beach 46, Oaxaca 62: Oaxaca leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Myrtle Beach 50, Oaxaca 65: Oaxaca leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Myrtle Beach 80, Oaxaca 40: Myrtle Beach leads by 40 points.
Getting around. Myrtle Beach 18, Oaxaca 55: Oaxaca leads by 37 points.
Shopping & style. Myrtle Beach 38, Oaxaca 62: Oaxaca leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Myrtle Beach 52, Oaxaca 77: Oaxaca leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Myrtle Beach 30, Oaxaca 38: Oaxaca leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Myrtle Beach 28, Oaxaca 50: Oaxaca leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Myrtle Beach and Oaxaca.

Your match

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

Myrtle Beach
44match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Oaxaca
Best match
54match

Wins on culture and sights and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Myrtle Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
172 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Oaxaca in July

28 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
80 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Myrtle BeachOaxaca

Where the figures come from

Myrtle Beach 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. Myrtle Beach: 1971-2000 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Myrtle Beach Air Force Base (5.5 km from centre). Oaxaca: 1961-1990 normals, Oaxaca, Oax. (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMyrtle BeachOaxaca
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
Elevation8 m1,555 m
Main airportMyrtle Beach International Airport (MYR)5 km from centre60 non-stop destinationsXoxocotlán International Airport (OAX)7 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureMyrtle BeachOaxaca
City population35,682258,913
People per km²5913,028
Museums within 10 km210
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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.