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Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo
The City Palace from Lake Pichola, Udaipur
UdaipurThe City Palace from Lake Pichola

Photos: Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Udaipur by Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Puerto Escondido or Udaipur?

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
  • nightlife

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

Choose Udaipur for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Udaipur’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, Udaipur 5: Puerto Escondido leads by 77 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Escondido 48, Udaipur 42: Puerto Escondido leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Escondido 8, Udaipur 66: Udaipur leads by 58 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Escondido 45, Udaipur 18: Puerto Escondido leads by 27 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Escondido 78, Udaipur 44: Puerto Escondido leads by 34 points.
Day trips. Puerto Escondido 35, Udaipur 68: Udaipur leads by 33 points.
Good for families. Puerto Escondido 42, Udaipur 32: Puerto Escondido leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Puerto Escondido 40, Udaipur 28: Puerto Escondido leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Escondido 22, Udaipur 48: Udaipur leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Puerto Escondido 68, Udaipur 86: Udaipur leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Escondido 12, Udaipur 32: Udaipur leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Escondido 58, Udaipur 45: Puerto Escondido leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Escondido and Udaipur.

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.

Udaipur
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

Udaipur in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
257 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Puerto EscondidoUdaipur

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.

Udaipur 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). Udaipur: 1978-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Udaipur Dabok (20.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto EscondidoUdaipur
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaHindi, English
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Indian Rupee (INR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+5:30
Emergency number911108 or 112
Elevation60 m578 m
Main airportPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsMaharana Pratap Airport (UDR)22 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days-

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto EscondidoUdaipur
City population29,903451,100
People per km²-12,192
Museums within 10 km03
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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. 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.