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Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo
The White Tower from the promenade, Thessaloniki
ThessalonikiThe White Tower from the promenade

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

Puerto Escondido or Thessaloniki?

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
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Thessaloniki for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Thessaloniki’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, Thessaloniki 55: Puerto Escondido leads by 27 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Escondido 48, Thessaloniki 77: Thessaloniki leads by 29 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Escondido 8, Thessaloniki 73: Thessaloniki leads by 65 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Escondido 45, Thessaloniki 76: Thessaloniki leads by 31 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Escondido 78, Thessaloniki 66: Puerto Escondido leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Puerto Escondido 35, Thessaloniki 74: Thessaloniki leads by 39 points.
Good for families. Puerto Escondido 42, Thessaloniki 50: Thessaloniki leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Puerto Escondido 40, Thessaloniki 60: Thessaloniki leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Escondido 22, Thessaloniki 50: Thessaloniki leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Puerto Escondido 68, Thessaloniki 66: Puerto Escondido leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Escondido 12, Thessaloniki 52: Thessaloniki leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Escondido 58, Thessaloniki 33: Puerto Escondido leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Escondido and Thessaloniki.

Your match

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

Puerto Escondido
45match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Thessaloniki
Best match
61match

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

Thessaloniki in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
26 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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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). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto EscondidoThessaloniki
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaGreek
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation60 m6 m
Main airportPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre90 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto EscondidoThessaloniki
City population29,903309,617
People per km²-16,042
Museums within 10 km032
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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.