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Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo
The Colosseum, Rome
RomeThe Colosseum

Photos: Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Rome by Tournasol7, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Puerto Escondido or Rome?

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
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Rome for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Rome’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, Rome 50: Puerto Escondido leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Escondido 48, Rome 82: Rome leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Escondido 8, Rome 99: Rome leads by 91 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Escondido 45, Rome 58: Rome leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Escondido 78, Rome 58: Puerto Escondido leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Puerto Escondido 35, Rome 92: Rome leads by 57 points.
Good for families. Puerto Escondido 42, Rome 50: Rome leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Puerto Escondido 40, Rome 60: Rome leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Escondido 22, Rome 72: Rome leads by 50 points.
Affordability. Puerto Escondido 68, Rome 38: Puerto Escondido leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Escondido 12, Rome 68: Rome leads by 56 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Escondido 58, Rome 40: Puerto Escondido leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Escondido and Rome.

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.

Rome
Best match
64match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips 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

Rome in July

31 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
21 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °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.

Rome's sunshine is measured 31 km from the centre, at Vigna Di Valle.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Puerto Escondido: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (65.6 km from centre). Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto EscondidoRome
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaItalian
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation60 m21 m
Main airportPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre242 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto EscondidoRome
City population29,9032,748,109
People per km²-2,135
Museums within 10 km0178
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km07
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 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. 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.