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Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo
The glass bubble of the Dalí Museum above its garden, St. Petersburg, Florida
St. Petersburg, FloridaThe glass bubble of the Dalí Museum above its garden

Photos: Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; St. Petersburg, Florida by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Puerto Escondido or St. Petersburg, Florida?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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

Choose St. Petersburg, Florida for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Petersburg, Florida’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, St. Petersburg, Florida 85: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Escondido 48, St. Petersburg, Florida 52: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Escondido 8, St. Petersburg, Florida 52: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Escondido 45, St. Petersburg, Florida 44: Puerto Escondido leads by 1 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Escondido 78, St. Petersburg, Florida 58: Puerto Escondido leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Puerto Escondido 35, St. Petersburg, Florida 55: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Puerto Escondido 42, St. Petersburg, Florida 70: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Puerto Escondido 40, St. Petersburg, Florida 33: Puerto Escondido leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Escondido 22, St. Petersburg, Florida 38: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Puerto Escondido 68, St. Petersburg, Florida 35: Puerto Escondido leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Escondido 12, St. Petersburg, Florida 42: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Escondido 58, St. Petersburg, Florida 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 St. Petersburg, Florida.

Your match

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Puerto Escondido
45match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

St. Petersburg, Florida
Best match
50match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts 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

St. Petersburg, Florida in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
197 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

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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). St. Petersburg, Florida: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto EscondidoSt. Petersburg, Florida
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya-
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation60 m134 m
Main airportPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)16 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto EscondidoSt. Petersburg, Florida
City population29,903258,308
People per km²-725
Museums within 10 km013
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months8 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.