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Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo
The red aerial tram nearing the top of Hidden Peak, Snowbird
SnowbirdThe red aerial tram nearing the top of Hidden Peak

Photos: Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Snowbird by VeggieGarden, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Puerto Escondido or Snowbird?

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 Snowbird for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Snowbird’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, Snowbird 5: Puerto Escondido leads by 77 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Escondido 48, Snowbird 20: Puerto Escondido leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Escondido 8, Snowbird 5: Puerto Escondido leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Escondido 45, Snowbird 9: Puerto Escondido leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Escondido 78, Snowbird 92: Snowbird leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Puerto Escondido 35, Snowbird 47: Snowbird leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Puerto Escondido and Snowbird are level on 42.
Getting around. Puerto Escondido and Snowbird are level on 40.
Shopping & style. Puerto Escondido 22, Snowbird 8: Puerto Escondido leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Puerto Escondido 68, Snowbird 15: Puerto Escondido leads by 53 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Escondido 12, Snowbird 8: Puerto Escondido leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Escondido 58, Snowbird 40: Puerto Escondido leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Escondido and Snowbird.

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.

Snowbird
28match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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

Snowbird in July

22 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
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.

Snowbird has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Puerto Escondido: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (65.6 km from centre). Snowbird: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasurePuerto EscondidoSnowbird
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya-
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation60 m2,479 m
Main airportPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)36 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto EscondidoSnowbird
City population29,903-
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.