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Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo
Château Frontenac from Dufferin Terrace, Quebec City
Quebec CityChâteau Frontenac from Dufferin Terrace

Photos: Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Quebec City by Jeangagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Puerto Escondido or Quebec City?

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 Puerto Escondido for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nightlife

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

Choose Quebec City for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Quebec City’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. Puerto Escondido 82, Quebec City 18: Puerto Escondido leads by 64 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Escondido 48, Quebec City 57: Quebec City leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Escondido 8, Quebec City 70: Quebec City leads by 62 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Escondido 45, Quebec City 42: Puerto Escondido leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Escondido 78, Quebec City 79: Quebec City leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Puerto Escondido 35, Quebec City 58: Quebec City leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Puerto Escondido 42, Quebec City 64: Quebec City leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Puerto Escondido 40, Quebec City 50: Quebec City leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Escondido 22, Quebec City 45: Quebec City leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Puerto Escondido 68, Quebec City 45: Puerto Escondido leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Escondido 12, Quebec City 52: Quebec City leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Escondido 58, Quebec City 55: Puerto Escondido leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Escondido and Quebec City.

Your match

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

Puerto Escondido
45match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Quebec City
Best match
53match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Quebec City in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
119 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Puerto EscondidoQuebec City

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. Puerto Escondido: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (65.6 km from centre). Quebec City: 1991-2020 normals, Beauport (3.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto EscondidoQuebec City
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaFrench, English
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation60 m98 m
Main airportPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsQuebec Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)13 km from centre34 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto EscondidoQuebec City
City population29,903574,482
People per km²-1,184
Museums within 10 km016
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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.