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Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo
The boardwalk at Delaware Avenue, Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth BeachThe boardwalk at Delaware Avenue

Photos: Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Rehoboth Beach by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Puerto Escondido or Rehoboth Beach?

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

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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

Choose Rehoboth Beach for

  • families
  • shopping
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Rehoboth Beach’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, Rehoboth Beach 70: Puerto Escondido leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Escondido 48, Rehoboth Beach 44: Puerto Escondido leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Escondido 8, Rehoboth Beach 14: Rehoboth Beach leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Escondido 45, Rehoboth Beach 40: Puerto Escondido leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Escondido 78, Rehoboth Beach 50: Puerto Escondido leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Puerto Escondido 35, Rehoboth Beach 50: Rehoboth Beach leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Puerto Escondido 42, Rehoboth Beach 70: Rehoboth Beach leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Puerto Escondido 40, Rehoboth Beach 50: Rehoboth Beach leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Escondido 22, Rehoboth Beach 45: Rehoboth Beach leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Puerto Escondido 68, Rehoboth Beach 32: Puerto Escondido leads by 36 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Escondido 12, Rehoboth Beach 28: Rehoboth Beach leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Escondido 58, Rehoboth Beach 32: Puerto Escondido leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Escondido and Rehoboth Beach.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Puerto Escondido
45match

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

Rehoboth Beach
44match

Wins on families and shopping 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

Rehoboth Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
92 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
23 °Csea
15 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.

Rehoboth Beach 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). Rehoboth Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Georgetown / Rogers Development (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto EscondidoRehoboth Beach
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya-
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation60 m5 m
Main airportPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)56 km from centre4 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto EscondidoRehoboth Beach
City population29,9031,108
People per km²-258
Museums within 10 km02
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months3 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.