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Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo
Cliff-top hotels above the harbour, Sorrento
SorrentoCliff-top hotels above the harbour

Photos: Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Sorrento by Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Puerto Escondido or Sorrento?

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

  • prices
  • beaches
  • nightlife

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

Choose Sorrento for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Sorrento’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, Sorrento 60: Puerto Escondido leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Escondido 48, Sorrento 60: Sorrento leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Escondido 8, Sorrento 32: Sorrento leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Escondido 45, Sorrento 28: Puerto Escondido leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Escondido 78, Sorrento 80: Sorrento leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Puerto Escondido 35, Sorrento 95: Sorrento leads by 60 points.
Good for families. Puerto Escondido and Sorrento are level on 42.
Getting around. Puerto Escondido 40, Sorrento 58: Sorrento leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Escondido 22, Sorrento 38: Sorrento leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Puerto Escondido 68, Sorrento 32: Puerto Escondido leads by 36 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Escondido 12, Sorrento 20: Sorrento leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Escondido 58, Sorrento 48: Puerto Escondido leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Escondido and Sorrento.

Your match

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

Puerto Escondido
45match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

Sorrento
Best match
49match

Wins on day trips 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

Sorrento in July

29 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
21 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °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.

Sorrento 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.

Sorrento's sunshine is measured 54 km from the centre, at Grazzanise.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Puerto Escondido: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (65.6 km from centre). Sorrento: 2005-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Capri (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto EscondidoSorrento
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaItalian
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation60 m50 m
Main airportPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto EscondidoSorrento
City population29,90315,407
People per km²-1,541
Museums within 10 km06
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.