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Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo
The old Tampa Bay Hotel across the river, Tampa
TampaThe old Tampa Bay Hotel across the river

Photos: Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Tampa by Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Puerto Escondido or Tampa?

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
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Tampa for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Tampa’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, Tampa 70: Puerto Escondido leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Escondido 48, Tampa 57: Tampa leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Escondido 8, Tampa 42: Tampa leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Escondido 45, Tampa 52: Tampa leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Escondido 78, Tampa 55: Puerto Escondido leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Puerto Escondido 35, Tampa 54: Tampa leads by 19 points.
Good for families. Puerto Escondido 42, Tampa 78: Tampa leads by 36 points.
Getting around. Puerto Escondido 40, Tampa 22: Puerto Escondido leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Escondido 22, Tampa 40: Tampa leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Puerto Escondido 68, Tampa 40: Puerto Escondido leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Escondido 12, Tampa 47: Tampa leads by 35 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Escondido 58, Tampa 30: Puerto Escondido leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Escondido and Tampa.

Your match

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

Puerto Escondido
45match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

Tampa
Best match
49match

Wins on families 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

Tampa in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
197 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
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). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto EscondidoTampa
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 m30 m
Main airportPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre101 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto EscondidoTampa
City population29,903384,959
People per km²-848
Museums within 10 km06
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.