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Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo
The Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
San FranciscoThe Golden Gate Bridge

Photos: Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; San Francisco by Elijah Cobb, Pexels License.

Puerto Escondido or San Francisco?

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 San Francisco for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on San Francisco’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, San Francisco 25: Puerto Escondido leads by 57 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Escondido 48, San Francisco 82: San Francisco leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Escondido 8, San Francisco 68: San Francisco leads by 60 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Escondido 45, San Francisco 58: San Francisco leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Escondido 78, San Francisco 80: San Francisco leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Puerto Escondido 35, San Francisco 72: San Francisco leads by 37 points.
Good for families. Puerto Escondido 42, San Francisco 66: San Francisco leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Puerto Escondido 40, San Francisco 70: San Francisco leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Escondido 22, San Francisco 58: San Francisco leads by 36 points.
Affordability. Puerto Escondido 68, San Francisco 14: Puerto Escondido leads by 54 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Escondido 12, San Francisco 76: San Francisco leads by 64 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Escondido 58, San Francisco 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 San Francisco.

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.

San Francisco
Best match
59match

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

San Francisco in July

22 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
13 °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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Puerto Escondido: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (65.6 km from centre). San Francisco: 1981-2010 normals, Alameda Naval Air Station (9.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto EscondidoSan Francisco
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya-
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation60 m16 m
Main airportPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsSan Francisco International Airport (SFO)18 km from centre142 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto EscondidoSan Francisco
City population29,903873,965
People per km²-1,455
Museums within 10 km051
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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. 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.