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The cathedral and the Leaning Tower, Pisa
PisaThe cathedral and the Leaning Tower
Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo

Photos: Pisa by Bruno Kraler, Pexels License; Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Pisa 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 Pisa for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • getting around

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

Choose Puerto Escondido for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • 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. Pisa 58, Puerto Escondido 82: Puerto Escondido leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. Pisa 55, Puerto Escondido 48: Pisa leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Pisa 68, Puerto Escondido 8: Pisa leads by 60 points.
Nightlife. Pisa 40, Puerto Escondido 45: Puerto Escondido leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Pisa 62, Puerto Escondido 78: Puerto Escondido leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Pisa 92, Puerto Escondido 35: Pisa leads by 57 points.
Good for families. Pisa 52, Puerto Escondido 42: Pisa leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Pisa 76, Puerto Escondido 40: Pisa leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Pisa 38, Puerto Escondido 22: Pisa leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Pisa 55, Puerto Escondido 68: Puerto Escondido leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Pisa 38, Puerto Escondido 12: Pisa leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Pisa 45, Puerto Escondido 58: Puerto Escondido leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Pisa and Puerto Escondido.

Your match

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

Pisa
Best match
57match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

Puerto Escondido
45match

Wins on beaches 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.

Pisa in July

30 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
32 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
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. Pisa: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (3.9 km from centre). Puerto Escondido: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (65.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePisaPuerto Escondido
Official languageItalianSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation4 m60 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasurePisaPuerto Escondido
City population88,73729,903
People per km²479-
Museums within 10 km270
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.