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Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo
Puente de San Martín over the Tagus, Toledo
ToledoPuente de San Martín over the Tagus

Photos: Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Toledo by Ввласенко, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Puerto Escondido or Toledo?

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
  • wellness

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

Choose Toledo for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Toledo’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, Toledo 5: Puerto Escondido leads by 77 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Escondido 48, Toledo 40: Puerto Escondido leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Escondido 8, Toledo 79: Toledo leads by 71 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Escondido 45, Toledo 22: Puerto Escondido leads by 23 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Escondido 78, Toledo 40: Puerto Escondido leads by 38 points.
Day trips. Puerto Escondido 35, Toledo 78: Toledo leads by 43 points.
Good for families. Puerto Escondido 42, Toledo 45: Toledo leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Puerto Escondido 40, Toledo 64: Toledo leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Escondido 22, Toledo 32: Toledo leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Puerto Escondido 68, Toledo 58: Puerto Escondido leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Escondido 12, Toledo 22: Toledo leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Escondido 58, Toledo 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 Toledo.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Puerto Escondido
45match

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

Toledo
43match

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

Toledo in July

35 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
6 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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). Toledo: 1991-2020 normals, Toledo (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto EscondidoToledo
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaSpanish
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation60 m523 m
Main airportPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)80 km from centre239 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto EscondidoToledo
City population29,90387,216
People per km²-376
Museums within 10 km013
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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.