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Elizabeth Quay and the centre of Perth, Perth
PerthElizabeth Quay and the centre of Perth
Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo

Photos: Perth by Samuel Wiki, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Perth 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 Perth for

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

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

Choose Puerto Escondido for

  • prices
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Perth 86, Puerto Escondido 82: Perth leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Perth 58, Puerto Escondido 48: Perth leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Perth 42, Puerto Escondido 8: Perth leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Perth 42, Puerto Escondido 45: Puerto Escondido leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Perth 72, Puerto Escondido 78: Puerto Escondido leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Perth 48, Puerto Escondido 35: Perth leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Perth 74, Puerto Escondido 42: Perth leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Perth 55, Puerto Escondido 40: Perth leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Perth 44, Puerto Escondido 22: Perth leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Perth 28, Puerto Escondido 68: Puerto Escondido leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Perth 50, Puerto Escondido 12: Perth leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Perth 38, Puerto Escondido 58: Puerto Escondido leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Perth and Puerto Escondido.

Your match

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

Perth
Best match
53match

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

Puerto Escondido
45match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Perth in July

19 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
20 °Csea
10 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. Perth: 1991-2020 normals, Perth (7.3 km from centre). Puerto Escondido: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (65.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePerthPuerto Escondido
Official languageEnglishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-6
Emergency number000911
Elevation2 m60 m
Main airportPerth International Airport (PER)10 km from centre49 non-stop destinationsPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasurePerthPuerto Escondido
City population2,141,83429,903
People per km²334-
Museums within 10 km150
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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.