VacationSelector
Santo Domingo church behind agaves, Oaxaca
OaxacaSanto Domingo church behind agaves
The Silver Pagoda, Phnom Penh
Phnom PenhThe Silver Pagoda

Photos: Oaxaca by Öskr Rck, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Phnom Penh by Francisco Anzola, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Oaxaca or Phnom Penh?

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 Oaxaca for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • food and drink

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

Choose Phnom Penh for

  • nightlife
  • prices
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Phnom Penh’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. Oaxaca 5, Phnom Penh 6: Phnom Penh leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Oaxaca 84, Phnom Penh 62: Oaxaca leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Oaxaca 74, Phnom Penh 62: Oaxaca leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Oaxaca 40, Phnom Penh 58: Phnom Penh leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Oaxaca 62, Phnom Penh 28: Oaxaca leads by 34 points.
Day trips. Oaxaca 65, Phnom Penh 34: Oaxaca leads by 31 points.
Good for families. Oaxaca 40, Phnom Penh 32: Oaxaca leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Oaxaca 55, Phnom Penh 35: Oaxaca leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Oaxaca 62, Phnom Penh 46: Oaxaca leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Oaxaca 77, Phnom Penh 86: Phnom Penh leads by 9 points.
Live music & performing arts. Oaxaca 38, Phnom Penh 32: Oaxaca leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Oaxaca and Phnom Penh are level on 50.
0255075100

What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Oaxaca and Phnom Penh.

Your match

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

Oaxaca
Best match
54match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips with your weighting.

Phnom Penh
44match

Wins on nightlife and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Oaxaca in July

28 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
80 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
13 hdaylight a day

Phnom Penh in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
168 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

0°10°20°30°40°JFMAMJJASOND

Rainfall in the month, mm

0100200300JFMAMJJASOND
OaxacaPhnom Penh

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Oaxaca: 1961-1990 normals, Oaxaca, Oax. (1.1 km from centre). Phnom Penh: 1991-2020 normals, Phnom-Penh / Pochentong (8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOaxacaPhnom Penh
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaKhmer
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Riel (KHR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzACG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+7
Emergency number911Police 117, ambulance 119, fire 118
Elevation1,555 m11 m
Main airportXoxocotlán International Airport (OAX)7 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsTecho International Airport (KTI)23 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureOaxacaPhnom Penh
City population258,9132,129,371
People per km²3,0283,138
Museums within 10 km103
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Oaxaca or Phnom Penh somewhere new.

Browse every destination

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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.