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Whitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum, Palm Beach
Palm BeachWhitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum
Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo

Photos: Palm Beach by Khowald, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Palm Beach 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 Palm Beach for

  • shopping
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Puerto Escondido for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife

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. Palm Beach and Puerto Escondido are level on 82.
Food & drink. Palm Beach 47, Puerto Escondido 48: Puerto Escondido leads by 1 points.
Culture & sights. Palm Beach 45, Puerto Escondido 8: Palm Beach leads by 37 points.
Nightlife. Palm Beach 32, Puerto Escondido 45: Puerto Escondido leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Palm Beach 58, Puerto Escondido 78: Puerto Escondido leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Palm Beach 55, Puerto Escondido 35: Palm Beach leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Palm Beach 62, Puerto Escondido 42: Palm Beach leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Palm Beach 32, Puerto Escondido 40: Puerto Escondido leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Palm Beach 66, Puerto Escondido 22: Palm Beach leads by 44 points.
Affordability. Palm Beach 12, Puerto Escondido 68: Puerto Escondido leads by 56 points.
Live music & performing arts. Palm Beach 45, Puerto Escondido 12: Palm Beach leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Palm Beach 55, Puerto Escondido 58: Puerto Escondido leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Palm Beach and Puerto Escondido.

Your match

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

Palm Beach
Best match
49match

Wins on shopping and culture and sights with your weighting.

Puerto Escondido
45match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 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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Palm BeachPuerto Escondido

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. Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (6.8 km from centre). Puerto Escondido: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (65.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePalm BeachPuerto Escondido
Official language-Spanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number911911
Elevation2 m60 m
Main airportPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinationsPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalm BeachPuerto Escondido
City population9,24529,903
People per km²322-
Museums within 10 km40
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 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). 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.