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Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
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Santa Claus Village in winter, Rovaniemi
RovaniemiSanta Claus Village in winter

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

Puerto Escondido or Rovaniemi?

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 Rovaniemi for

  • families
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Rovaniemi’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, Rovaniemi 10: Puerto Escondido leads by 72 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Escondido 48, Rovaniemi 25: Puerto Escondido leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Escondido 8, Rovaniemi 22: Rovaniemi leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Escondido 45, Rovaniemi 15: Puerto Escondido leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Escondido and Rovaniemi are level on 78.
Day trips. Puerto Escondido 35, Rovaniemi 8: Puerto Escondido leads by 27 points.
Good for families. Puerto Escondido 42, Rovaniemi 72: Rovaniemi leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Puerto Escondido 40, Rovaniemi 36: Puerto Escondido leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Escondido 22, Rovaniemi 18: Puerto Escondido leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Puerto Escondido 68, Rovaniemi 18: Puerto Escondido leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Escondido 12, Rovaniemi 22: Rovaniemi leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Escondido 58, Rovaniemi 60: Rovaniemi leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Escondido and Rovaniemi.

Your match

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Puerto Escondido
Best match
45match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Rovaniemi
32match

Wins on families and culture and sights 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

Rovaniemi in July

21 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
78 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
22 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.

Rovaniemi 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). Rovaniemi: 2008-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rovaniemi Rautatieasema / Kuusela (0.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto EscondidoRovaniemi
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaFinnish, Swedish
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 m88 m
Main airportPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsRovaniemi Airport (RVN)8 km from centre44 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto EscondidoRovaniemi
City population29,90365,329
People per km²-9
Museums within 10 km06
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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. 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.