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The skyline over the Schuylkill, Philadelphia
PhiladelphiaThe skyline over the Schuylkill
Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo

Photos: Philadelphia by Trev W. Adams, Pexels License; Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

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

Choose Puerto Escondido for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • prices

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. Philadelphia 36, Puerto Escondido 82: Puerto Escondido leads by 46 points.
Food & drink. Philadelphia 62, Puerto Escondido 48: Philadelphia leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Philadelphia 72, Puerto Escondido 8: Philadelphia leads by 64 points.
Nightlife. Philadelphia 55, Puerto Escondido 45: Philadelphia leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Philadelphia 52, Puerto Escondido 78: Puerto Escondido leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Philadelphia 80, Puerto Escondido 35: Philadelphia leads by 45 points.
Good for families. Philadelphia 68, Puerto Escondido 42: Philadelphia leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Philadelphia 66, Puerto Escondido 40: Philadelphia leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Philadelphia 57, Puerto Escondido 22: Philadelphia leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Philadelphia 40, Puerto Escondido 68: Puerto Escondido leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Philadelphia 72, Puerto Escondido 12: Philadelphia leads by 60 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Philadelphia 26, Puerto Escondido 58: Puerto Escondido leads by 32 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Philadelphia and Puerto Escondido.

Your match

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

Philadelphia
Best match
57match

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

Puerto Escondido
45match

Wins on beaches 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.

Philadelphia in July

31 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
111 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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. Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre). Puerto Escondido: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (65.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePhiladelphiaPuerto 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
Elevation12 m60 m
Main airportPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasurePhiladelphiaPuerto Escondido
City population1,603,79729,903
People per km²4,339-
Museums within 10 km540
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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.