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Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo
Bell Rock outside Sedona, Sedona
SedonaBell Rock outside Sedona

Photos: Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Sedona by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Puerto Escondido or Sedona?

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
  • nightlife

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

Choose Sedona for

  • wellness
  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Sedona’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, Sedona 16: Puerto Escondido leads by 66 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Escondido 48, Sedona 33: Puerto Escondido leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Escondido 8, Sedona 20: Sedona leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Escondido 45, Sedona 8: Puerto Escondido leads by 37 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Escondido 78, Sedona 93: Sedona leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Puerto Escondido 35, Sedona 55: Sedona leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Puerto Escondido and Sedona are level on 42.
Getting around. Puerto Escondido 40, Sedona 22: Puerto Escondido leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Escondido 22, Sedona 34: Sedona leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Puerto Escondido 68, Sedona 18: Puerto Escondido leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Escondido 12, Sedona 13: Sedona leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Escondido 58, Sedona 82: Sedona leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Escondido and Sedona.

Your match

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

Puerto Escondido
Best match
45match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Sedona
36match

Wins on wellness and day trips 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

Sedona in July

34 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
51 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.

Sedona's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Sedona 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). Sedona: 2009-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sedona / West Sedona (1.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto EscondidoSedona
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 m1,319 m
Main airportPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsPhoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)160 km from centre149 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto EscondidoSedona
City population29,9039,684
People per km²-195
Museums within 10 km00
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.