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Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
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Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo
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Photos: Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Tokyo by Benh LIEU SONG, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Puerto Escondido or Tokyo?

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
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Tokyo for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Tokyo’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, Tokyo 40: Puerto Escondido leads by 42 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Escondido 48, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 50 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Escondido 8, Tokyo 84: Tokyo leads by 76 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Escondido 45, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 41 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Escondido 78, Tokyo 68: Puerto Escondido leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Puerto Escondido 35, Tokyo 85: Tokyo leads by 50 points.
Good for families. Puerto Escondido 42, Tokyo 95: Tokyo leads by 53 points.
Getting around. Puerto Escondido 40, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 58 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Escondido 22, Tokyo 99: Tokyo leads by 77 points.
Affordability. Puerto Escondido 68, Tokyo 48: Puerto Escondido leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Escondido 12, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 74 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Escondido 58, Tokyo 78: Tokyo leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Escondido and Tokyo.

Your match

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

Puerto Escondido
45match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Tokyo
Best match
80match

Wins on shopping 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

Tokyo in July

30 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
157 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
23 °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). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto EscondidoTokyo
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaJapanese
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation60 m6 m
Main airportPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto EscondidoTokyo
City population29,90314,264,798
People per km²-6,501
Museums within 10 km0192
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 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.