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Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo
The old Hokkaido Government Office and its flower beds, Sapporo
SapporoThe old Hokkaido Government Office and its flower beds

Photos: Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Sapporo by Feri88, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Puerto Escondido or Sapporo?

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

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

Choose Sapporo for

  • getting around
  • shopping
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Sapporo’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, Sapporo 28: Puerto Escondido leads by 54 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Escondido 48, Sapporo 80: Sapporo leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Escondido 8, Sapporo 40: Sapporo leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Escondido 45, Sapporo 62: Sapporo leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Escondido 78, Sapporo 86: Sapporo leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Puerto Escondido 35, Sapporo 64: Sapporo leads by 29 points.
Good for families. Puerto Escondido 42, Sapporo 72: Sapporo leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Puerto Escondido 40, Sapporo 80: Sapporo leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Escondido 22, Sapporo 58: Sapporo leads by 36 points.
Affordability. Puerto Escondido 68, Sapporo 60: Puerto Escondido leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Escondido 12, Sapporo 44: Sapporo leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Escondido 58, Sapporo 80: Sapporo leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Escondido and Sapporo.

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.

Sapporo
Best match
63match

Wins on getting around and shopping 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

Sapporo in July

25 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
91 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
19 °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). Sapporo: 1991-2020 normals, Sapporo (2.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto EscondidoSapporo
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaJapanese
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation60 m5 m
Main airportPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsNew Chitose Airport (CTS)42 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto EscondidoSapporo
City population29,9031,959,313
People per km²-1,747
Museums within 10 km033
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months1 month

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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.