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Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo
The old town from the sea, Rovinj
RovinjThe old town from the sea

Photos: Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Rovinj by Vyacheslav Bukharov, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Puerto Escondido or Rovinj?

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
  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Rovinj for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Rovinj’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, Rovinj 70: Puerto Escondido leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Escondido 48, Rovinj 50: Rovinj leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Escondido 8, Rovinj 38: Rovinj leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Escondido 45, Rovinj 25: Puerto Escondido leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Escondido 78, Rovinj 60: Puerto Escondido leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Puerto Escondido 35, Rovinj 68: Rovinj leads by 33 points.
Good for families. Puerto Escondido 42, Rovinj 52: Rovinj leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Puerto Escondido 40, Rovinj 55: Rovinj leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Escondido 22, Rovinj 28: Rovinj leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Puerto Escondido 68, Rovinj 36: Puerto Escondido leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Escondido 12, Rovinj 15: Rovinj leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Escondido 58, Rovinj 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 Rovinj.

Your match

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Too close to call, level with your weighting

Puerto Escondido
45match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Rovinj
45match

Wins on day trips 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

Rovinj in July

29 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
44 mmrain in the month
10 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.

Rovinj's temperatures are measured 64 km from the centre, at Trieste.

Rovinj 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). Rovinj: 1991-2020 normals, Trieste (63.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto EscondidoRovinj
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaCroatian
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 m0 m
Main airportPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsPula Airport (PUY)31 km from centre34 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto EscondidoRovinj
City population29,90312,968
Museums within 10 km01
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 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.