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Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo
The Cap Spartel lighthouse among palms, Tangier
TangierThe Cap Spartel lighthouse among palms

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

Puerto Escondido or Tangier?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife

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

Choose Tangier for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Tangier’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, Tangier 50: Puerto Escondido leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Escondido 48, Tangier 58: Tangier leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Escondido 8, Tangier 57: Tangier leads by 49 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Escondido 45, Tangier 30: Puerto Escondido leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Escondido 78, Tangier 55: Puerto Escondido leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Puerto Escondido 35, Tangier 72: Tangier leads by 37 points.
Good for families. Puerto Escondido 42, Tangier 35: Puerto Escondido leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Puerto Escondido and Tangier are level on 40.
Shopping & style. Puerto Escondido 22, Tangier 42: Tangier leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Puerto Escondido 68, Tangier 76: Tangier leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Escondido 12, Tangier 28: Tangier leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Escondido 58, Tangier 50: Puerto Escondido leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Escondido and Tangier.

Your match

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

Puerto Escondido
45match

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

Tangier
Best match
49match

Wins on culture and sights 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

Tangier in July

29 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
22 °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). Tangier: 1991-2020 normals, Tanger Aerodrome (9.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto EscondidoTangier
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1
Emergency number911Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation60 m56 m
Main airportPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsTangier Ibn Battuta Airport (TNG)11 km from centre50 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto EscondidoTangier
City population29,9031,275,428
People per km²-6,393
Museums within 10 km06
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months3 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.