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Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
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The House of the Blackheads at dusk, Riga
RigaThe House of the Blackheads at dusk

Photos: Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Riga by Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Puerto Escondido or Riga?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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

Choose Riga for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Riga’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, Riga 40: Puerto Escondido leads by 42 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Escondido 48, Riga 52: Riga leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Escondido 8, Riga 66: Riga leads by 58 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Escondido 45, Riga 52: Riga leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Escondido 78, Riga 55: Puerto Escondido leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Puerto Escondido 35, Riga 60: Riga leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Puerto Escondido 42, Riga 50: Riga leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Puerto Escondido 40, Riga 68: Riga leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Escondido 22, Riga 45: Riga leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Puerto Escondido 68, Riga 62: Puerto Escondido leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Escondido 12, Riga 65: Riga leads by 53 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Escondido 58, Riga 50: Puerto Escondido leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Escondido and Riga.

Your match

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

Puerto Escondido
45match

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

Riga
Best match
55match

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

Riga in July

24 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
87 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
18 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Puerto EscondidoRiga

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). Riga: 1991-2020 normals, Riga (4.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto EscondidoRiga
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaLatvian
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation60 m6 m
Main airportPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsRiga International Airport (RIX)9 km from centre93 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days-

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto EscondidoRiga
City population29,903588,911
Museums within 10 km012
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.