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Santo Domingo church behind agaves, Oaxaca
OaxacaSanto Domingo church behind agaves
The Colosseum, Rome
RomeThe Colosseum

Photos: Oaxaca by Öskr Rck, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Rome by Tournasol7, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Oaxaca or Rome?

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

  • prices
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Rome for

  • beaches
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Rome’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, Rome 50: Rome leads by 45 points.
Food & drink. Oaxaca 84, Rome 82: Oaxaca leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Oaxaca 74, Rome 99: Rome leads by 25 points.
Nightlife. Oaxaca 40, Rome 58: Rome leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Oaxaca 62, Rome 58: Oaxaca leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Oaxaca 65, Rome 92: Rome leads by 27 points.
Good for families. Oaxaca 40, Rome 50: Rome leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Oaxaca 55, Rome 60: Rome leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Oaxaca 62, Rome 72: Rome leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Oaxaca 77, Rome 38: Oaxaca leads by 39 points.
Live music & performing arts. Oaxaca 38, Rome 68: Rome leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Oaxaca 50, Rome 40: Oaxaca leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Oaxaca and Rome.

Your match

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

Oaxaca
54match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

Rome
Best match
64match

Wins on beaches and live music and the arts 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

Rome in July

31 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
21 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Rome's sunshine is measured 31 km from the centre, at Vigna Di Valle.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Oaxaca: 1961-1990 normals, Oaxaca, Oax. (1.1 km from centre). Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOaxacaRome
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaItalian
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,555 m21 m
Main airportXoxocotlán International Airport (OAX)7 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre242 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureOaxacaRome
City population258,9132,748,109
People per km²3,0282,135
Museums within 10 km10178
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km27
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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. 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.