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Santo Domingo church behind agaves, Oaxaca
OaxacaSanto Domingo church behind agaves
The Basilica of Superga, Turin
TurinThe Basilica of Superga

Photos: Oaxaca by Öskr Rck, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Turin by Konstantin Dacosta, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Oaxaca or Turin?

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
  • shopping

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

Choose Turin for

  • live music and the arts
  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Turin’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, Turin 12: Turin leads by 7 points.
Food & drink. Oaxaca 84, Turin 81: Oaxaca leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Oaxaca 74, Turin 78: Turin leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Oaxaca 40, Turin 50: Turin leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Oaxaca 62, Turin 80: Turin leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Oaxaca 65, Turin 84: Turin leads by 19 points.
Good for families. Oaxaca 40, Turin 57: Turin leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Oaxaca 55, Turin 68: Turin leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Oaxaca 62, Turin 58: Oaxaca leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Oaxaca 77, Turin 58: Oaxaca leads by 19 points.
Live music & performing arts. Oaxaca 38, Turin 65: Turin leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Oaxaca 50, Turin 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 Turin.

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.

Turin
Best match
61match

Wins on live music and the arts and day trips 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

Turin in July

29 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
56 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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OaxacaTurin

Where the figures come from

Turin 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. Oaxaca: 1961-1990 normals, Oaxaca, Oax. (1.1 km from centre). Turin: 1991-2020 normals, Torino / Caselle (15.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOaxacaTurin
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 m239 m
Main airportXoxocotlán International Airport (OAX)7 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsTurin Airport (TRN)14 km from centre65 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureOaxacaTurin
City population258,913841,600
People per km²3,0286,474
Museums within 10 km1072
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24

Where else could you go?

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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. 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.