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The Opera House on the fjord, Oslo
OsloThe Opera House on the fjord
Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo

Photos: Oslo by Beata May, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Oslo or Puerto Escondido?

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 Oslo for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

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

Choose Puerto Escondido for

  • prices
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Escondido’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. Oslo 36, Puerto Escondido 82: Puerto Escondido leads by 46 points.
Food & drink. Oslo 55, Puerto Escondido 48: Oslo leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Oslo 66, Puerto Escondido 8: Oslo leads by 58 points.
Nightlife. Oslo 48, Puerto Escondido 45: Oslo leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Oslo 82, Puerto Escondido 78: Oslo leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Oslo 52, Puerto Escondido 35: Oslo leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Oslo 63, Puerto Escondido 42: Oslo leads by 21 points.
Getting around. Oslo 85, Puerto Escondido 40: Oslo leads by 45 points.
Shopping & style. Oslo 50, Puerto Escondido 22: Oslo leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Oslo 14, Puerto Escondido 68: Puerto Escondido leads by 54 points.
Live music & performing arts. Oslo 62, Puerto Escondido 12: Oslo leads by 50 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Oslo 60, Puerto Escondido 58: Oslo leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Oslo and Puerto Escondido.

Your match

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

Oslo
Best match
56match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Puerto Escondido
45match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Oslo in July

23 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
86 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

Puerto Escondido in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
116 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Puerto Escondido's temperatures are measured 66 km from the centre, at Puerto Angel, Oax..

Puerto Escondido 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. Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre). Puerto Escondido: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (65.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOsloPuerto Escondido
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110911
Elevation23 m60 m
Main airportOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre147 non-stop destinationsPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsloPuerto Escondido
City population717,71029,903
Museums within 10 km600
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. 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.