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Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
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Photos: Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Sao Paulo by Webysther Nunes, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Puerto Escondido or Sao Paulo?

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
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Sao Paulo for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Sao Paulo’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, Sao Paulo 42: Puerto Escondido leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Escondido 48, Sao Paulo 84: Sao Paulo leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Escondido 8, Sao Paulo 60: Sao Paulo leads by 52 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Escondido 45, Sao Paulo 86: Sao Paulo leads by 41 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Escondido 78, Sao Paulo 48: Puerto Escondido leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Puerto Escondido 35, Sao Paulo 47: Sao Paulo leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Puerto Escondido 42, Sao Paulo 52: Sao Paulo leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Puerto Escondido 40, Sao Paulo 44: Sao Paulo leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Escondido 22, Sao Paulo 70: Sao Paulo leads by 48 points.
Affordability. Puerto Escondido 68, Sao Paulo 62: Puerto Escondido leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Escondido 12, Sao Paulo 76: Sao Paulo leads by 64 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Escondido 58, Sao Paulo 25: Puerto Escondido leads by 33 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Escondido and Sao Paulo.

Your match

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

Puerto Escondido
45match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Sao Paulo
Best match
58match

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

Sao Paulo in July

23 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
53 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
No seasea
11 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). Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto EscondidoSao Paulo
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaPortuguese
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-3
Emergency number911Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation60 m760 m
Main airportPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre104 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto EscondidoSao Paulo
City population29,90311,451,999
People per km²-7,519
Museums within 10 km090
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.