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Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
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The Basilica of Saint-Sernin, Toulouse
ToulouseThe Basilica of Saint-Sernin

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

Puerto Escondido or Toulouse?

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
  • prices

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

Choose Toulouse for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Toulouse’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, Toulouse 10: Puerto Escondido leads by 72 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Escondido 48, Toulouse 66: Toulouse leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Escondido 8, Toulouse 64: Toulouse leads by 56 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Escondido 45, Toulouse 56: Toulouse leads by 11 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Escondido 78, Toulouse 58: Puerto Escondido leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Puerto Escondido 35, Toulouse 72: Toulouse leads by 37 points.
Good for families. Puerto Escondido 42, Toulouse 62: Toulouse leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Puerto Escondido 40, Toulouse 70: Toulouse leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Escondido 22, Toulouse 50: Toulouse leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Puerto Escondido 68, Toulouse 46: Puerto Escondido leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Escondido 12, Toulouse 58: Toulouse leads by 46 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Escondido 58, Toulouse 27: Puerto Escondido leads by 31 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Escondido and Toulouse.

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.

Toulouse
Best match
53match

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

Toulouse in July

28 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
40 mmrain in the month
8 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). Toulouse: 1991-2020 normals, Toulouse / Blagnac (7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto EscondidoToulouse
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaFrench
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation60 m115 m
Main airportPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsToulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS)7 km from centre84 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto EscondidoToulouse
City population29,903514,819
People per km²-4,352
Museums within 10 km024
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.