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Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
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The Arctic Cathedral, Tromso
TromsoThe Arctic Cathedral

Photos: Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Tromso by Moyan Brenn, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Puerto Escondido or Tromso?

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
  • day trips

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

Choose Tromso for

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Tromso’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, Tromso 8: Puerto Escondido leads by 74 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Escondido 48, Tromso 36: Puerto Escondido leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Escondido 8, Tromso 27: Tromso leads by 19 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Escondido 45, Tromso 38: Puerto Escondido leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Escondido 78, Tromso 92: Tromso leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Puerto Escondido 35, Tromso 14: Puerto Escondido leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Puerto Escondido 42, Tromso 45: Tromso leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Puerto Escondido 40, Tromso 60: Tromso leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Escondido 22, Tromso 15: Puerto Escondido leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Puerto Escondido 68, Tromso 11: Puerto Escondido leads by 57 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Escondido 12, Tromso 32: Tromso leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Escondido 58, Tromso 38: Puerto Escondido 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 Tromso.

Your match

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Puerto Escondido
Best match
45match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Tromso
35match

Wins on getting around 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

Tromso in July

16 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
73 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
10 °Csea
24 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Puerto EscondidoTromso

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). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto EscondidoTromso
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation60 m20 m
Main airportPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre49 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto EscondidoTromso
City population29,90379,943
People per km²-32
Museums within 10 km08
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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.