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Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo
Erasmus Bridge and the skyline, Rotterdam
RotterdamErasmus Bridge and the skyline

Photos: Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Rotterdam by Bas Geerlings, Pexels License.

Puerto Escondido or Rotterdam?

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
  • prices

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

Choose Rotterdam for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Rotterdam’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, Rotterdam 27: Puerto Escondido leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Escondido 48, Rotterdam 52: Rotterdam leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Escondido 8, Rotterdam 58: Rotterdam leads by 50 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Escondido 45, Rotterdam 52: Rotterdam leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Escondido 78, Rotterdam 44: Puerto Escondido leads by 34 points.
Day trips. Puerto Escondido 35, Rotterdam 85: Rotterdam leads by 50 points.
Good for families. Puerto Escondido 42, Rotterdam 66: Rotterdam leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Puerto Escondido 40, Rotterdam 78: Rotterdam leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Escondido 22, Rotterdam 55: Rotterdam leads by 33 points.
Affordability. Puerto Escondido 68, Rotterdam 38: Puerto Escondido leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Escondido 12, Rotterdam 58: Rotterdam leads by 46 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Escondido 58, Rotterdam 42: Puerto Escondido leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Escondido and Rotterdam.

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.

Rotterdam
Best match
55match

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

Rotterdam in July

22 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
91 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
16 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.

Rotterdam 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.

Rotterdam's sunshine is measured 52 km from the centre, at De Bilt.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Puerto Escondido: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (65.6 km from centre). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto EscondidoRotterdam
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaDutch
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation60 m10 m
Main airportPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto EscondidoRotterdam
City population29,903664,311
People per km²-2,080
Museums within 10 km040
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
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.