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Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo
Camelback Mountain above the city, Scottsdale
ScottsdaleCamelback Mountain above the city

Photos: Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Scottsdale by Visitor7, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Puerto Escondido or Scottsdale?

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
  • getting around

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

Choose Scottsdale for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Scottsdale’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, Scottsdale 8: Puerto Escondido leads by 74 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Escondido 48, Scottsdale 46: Puerto Escondido leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Escondido 8, Scottsdale 38: Scottsdale leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Escondido 45, Scottsdale 52: Scottsdale leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Escondido 78, Scottsdale 68: Puerto Escondido leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Puerto Escondido 35, Scottsdale 50: Scottsdale leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Puerto Escondido 42, Scottsdale 60: Scottsdale leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Puerto Escondido 40, Scottsdale 20: Puerto Escondido leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Escondido 22, Scottsdale 60: Scottsdale leads by 38 points.
Affordability. Puerto Escondido 68, Scottsdale 32: Puerto Escondido leads by 36 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Escondido 12, Scottsdale 40: Scottsdale leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Escondido 58, Scottsdale 72: Scottsdale leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Escondido and Scottsdale.

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.

Scottsdale
46match

Wins on shopping 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

Scottsdale in July

41 °Cdaytime high
29 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 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). Scottsdale: 1991-2020 normals, Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport (13.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto EscondidoScottsdale
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya-
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-7
Emergency number911911
Elevation60 m380 m
Main airportPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsPhoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)10 km from centre149 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto EscondidoScottsdale
City population29,903241,361
Museums within 10 km010
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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.