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Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo
The Assembly Hall on Temple Square, Salt Lake City
Salt Lake CityThe Assembly Hall on Temple Square

Photos: Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Salt Lake City by hakkun, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Puerto Escondido or Salt Lake City?

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
  • wellness

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

Choose Salt Lake City for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Salt Lake City’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, Salt Lake City 12: Puerto Escondido leads by 70 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Escondido 48, Salt Lake City 40: Puerto Escondido leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Escondido 8, Salt Lake City 42: Salt Lake City leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Escondido 45, Salt Lake City 30: Puerto Escondido leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Escondido 78, Salt Lake City 90: Salt Lake City leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Puerto Escondido 35, Salt Lake City 34: Puerto Escondido leads by 1 points.
Good for families. Puerto Escondido 42, Salt Lake City 72: Salt Lake City leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Puerto Escondido 40, Salt Lake City 42: Salt Lake City leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Escondido 22, Salt Lake City 36: Salt Lake City leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Puerto Escondido 68, Salt Lake City 40: Puerto Escondido leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Escondido 12, Salt Lake City 55: Salt Lake City leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Escondido 58, Salt Lake City 38: Puerto Escondido leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Escondido and Salt Lake City.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Puerto Escondido
45match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Salt Lake City
44match

Wins on live music and the arts 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

Salt Lake City in July

34 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Puerto Escondido: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (65.6 km from centre). Salt Lake City: 1991-2020 normals, Salt Lake City International Airport (7.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto EscondidoSalt Lake City
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya-
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation60 m1,288 m
Main airportPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)9 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto EscondidoSalt Lake City
City population29,903199,723
People per km²-690
Museums within 10 km012
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. 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.