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Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo
The minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque, Tunis
TunisThe minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque

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

Puerto Escondido or Tunis?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • nightlife

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

Choose Tunis for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Tunis’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, Tunis 60: Puerto Escondido leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Escondido 48, Tunis 60: Tunis leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Escondido 8, Tunis 76: Tunis leads by 68 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Escondido 45, Tunis 33: Puerto Escondido leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Escondido 78, Tunis 45: Puerto Escondido leads by 33 points.
Day trips. Puerto Escondido 35, Tunis 77: Tunis leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Puerto Escondido 42, Tunis 38: Puerto Escondido leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Puerto Escondido 40, Tunis 48: Tunis leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Escondido 22, Tunis 50: Tunis leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Puerto Escondido 68, Tunis 86: Tunis leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Escondido 12, Tunis 38: Tunis leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Escondido and Tunis are level on 58.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Escondido and Tunis.

Your match

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

Puerto Escondido
45match

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

Tunis
Best match
56match

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

Tunis in July

34 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
25 °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). Tunis: 1991-2020 normals, Tunis-Carthage (6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto EscondidoTunis
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaArabic
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Tunisian Dinar (TND)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1
Emergency number911Police 197, ambulance 190, fire 198
Elevation60 m4 m
Main airportPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsTunis Carthage International Airport (TUN)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto EscondidoTunis
City population29,903602,560
People per km²-2,834
Museums within 10 km016
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
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. 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.