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Santo Domingo church behind agaves, Oaxaca
OaxacaSanto Domingo church behind agaves
The beach and the oceanfront hotels from the fishing pier, Virginia Beach
Virginia BeachThe beach and the oceanfront hotels from the fishing pier

Photos: Oaxaca by Öskr Rck, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Virginia Beach by SchuminWeb, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Oaxaca or Virginia Beach?

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

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • prices

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

Choose Virginia Beach for

  • beaches
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Virginia Beach’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, Virginia Beach 77: Virginia Beach leads by 72 points.
Food & drink. Oaxaca 84, Virginia Beach 42: Oaxaca leads by 42 points.
Culture & sights. Oaxaca 74, Virginia Beach 30: Oaxaca leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Oaxaca 40, Virginia Beach 37: Oaxaca leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Oaxaca 62, Virginia Beach 56: Oaxaca leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Oaxaca 65, Virginia Beach 64: Oaxaca leads by 1 points.
Good for families. Oaxaca 40, Virginia Beach 75: Virginia Beach leads by 35 points.
Getting around. Oaxaca 55, Virginia Beach 27: Oaxaca leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Oaxaca 62, Virginia Beach 32: Oaxaca leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Oaxaca 77, Virginia Beach 40: Oaxaca leads by 37 points.
Live music & performing arts. Oaxaca and Virginia Beach are level on 38.
Wellness & relaxation. Oaxaca 50, Virginia Beach 32: Oaxaca leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Oaxaca and Virginia Beach.

Your match

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

Oaxaca
Best match
54match

Wins on culture and sights and food and drink with your weighting.

Virginia Beach
46match

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

Virginia Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
152 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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OaxacaVirginia Beach

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Oaxaca: 1961-1990 normals, Oaxaca, Oax. (1.1 km from centre). Virginia Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Virginia Beach / Gatewood Park (5.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOaxacaVirginia Beach
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 m7 m
Main airportXoxocotlán International Airport (OAX)7 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsNorfolk International Airport (ORF)20 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureOaxacaVirginia Beach
City population258,913459,470
People per km²3,028-
Museums within 10 km102
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.