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Santo Domingo church behind agaves, Oaxaca
OaxacaSanto Domingo church behind agaves
St. Petersburg, Florida

Photos: Oaxaca by Öskr Rck, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Oaxaca or St. Petersburg, Florida?

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
  • food and drink
  • shopping

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

Choose St. Petersburg, Florida for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Petersburg, Florida’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, St. Petersburg, Florida 85: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 80 points.
Food & drink. Oaxaca 84, St. Petersburg, Florida 52: Oaxaca leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Oaxaca 74, St. Petersburg, Florida 52: Oaxaca leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Oaxaca 40, St. Petersburg, Florida 44: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Oaxaca 62, St. Petersburg, Florida 58: Oaxaca leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Oaxaca 65, St. Petersburg, Florida 55: Oaxaca leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Oaxaca 40, St. Petersburg, Florida 70: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Oaxaca 55, St. Petersburg, Florida 33: Oaxaca leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Oaxaca 62, St. Petersburg, Florida 38: Oaxaca leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Oaxaca 77, St. Petersburg, Florida 35: Oaxaca leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. Oaxaca 38, St. Petersburg, Florida 42: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Oaxaca 50, St. Petersburg, Florida 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 St. Petersburg, Florida.

Your match

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

Oaxaca
Best match
54match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

St. Petersburg, Florida
50match

Wins on beaches and families 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

St. Petersburg, Florida in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
197 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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OaxacaSt. Petersburg, Florida

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Oaxaca: 1961-1990 normals, Oaxaca, Oax. (1.1 km from centre). St. Petersburg, Florida: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOaxacaSt. Petersburg, Florida
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya-
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation1,555 m134 m
Main airportXoxocotlán International Airport (OAX)7 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)16 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureOaxacaSt. Petersburg, Florida
City population258,913258,308
People per km²3,028725
Museums within 10 km1013
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C-8 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. 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.