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Santo Domingo church behind agaves, Oaxaca
OaxacaSanto Domingo church behind agaves
Rabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira, Porto
PortoRabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira

Photos: Oaxaca by Öskr Rck, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Porto by Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Oaxaca or Porto?

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

  • wellness
  • prices
  • food and drink

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

Choose Porto for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Porto’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, Porto 40: Porto leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Oaxaca 84, Porto 70: Oaxaca leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Oaxaca 74, Porto 68: Oaxaca leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Oaxaca 40, Porto 65: Porto leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Oaxaca 62, Porto 64: Porto leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Oaxaca 65, Porto 79: Porto leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Oaxaca 40, Porto 52: Porto leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Oaxaca 55, Porto 66: Porto leads by 11 points.
Shopping & style. Oaxaca 62, Porto 52: Oaxaca leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Oaxaca 77, Porto 62: Oaxaca leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Oaxaca 38, Porto 52: Porto leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Oaxaca 50, Porto 34: Oaxaca leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Oaxaca and Porto.

Your match

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

Oaxaca
54match

Wins on wellness and prices with your weighting.

Porto
Best match
59match

Wins on beaches and nightlife 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
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Porto in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
22 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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OaxacaPorto

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Oaxaca: 1961-1990 normals, Oaxaca, Oax. (1.1 km from centre). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOaxacaPorto
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaPortuguese
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,555 m104 m
Main airportXoxocotlán International Airport (OAX)7 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre134 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureOaxacaPorto
City population258,913273,476
People per km²3,0286,606
Museums within 10 km1042
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.