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Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
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Ushuaia below snow-capped mountains, Ushuaia
UshuaiaUshuaia below snow-capped mountains

Photos: Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Ushuaia by Jan Tang, Pexels License.

Puerto Escondido or Ushuaia?

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
  • nightlife

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

Choose Ushuaia for

  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Ushuaia’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, Ushuaia 3: Puerto Escondido leads by 79 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Escondido 48, Ushuaia 40: Puerto Escondido leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Escondido 8, Ushuaia 22: Ushuaia leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Escondido 45, Ushuaia 18: Puerto Escondido leads by 27 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Escondido 78, Ushuaia 88: Ushuaia leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Puerto Escondido 35, Ushuaia 14: Puerto Escondido leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Puerto Escondido 42, Ushuaia 40: Puerto Escondido leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Puerto Escondido 40, Ushuaia 45: Ushuaia leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Escondido and Ushuaia are level on 22.
Affordability. Puerto Escondido 68, Ushuaia 42: Puerto Escondido leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Escondido 12, Ushuaia 10: Puerto Escondido leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Escondido 58, Ushuaia 26: Puerto Escondido leads by 32 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Escondido and Ushuaia.

Your match

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

Puerto Escondido
Best match
45match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Ushuaia
31match

Wins on culture and sights and nature and the outdoors 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

Ushuaia in July

4 °Cdaytime high
0 °Cnight-time low
36 mmrain in the month
2 hsunshine a day
No seasea
8 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). Ushuaia: 1991-2020 normals, Ushuaia Aerodrome (1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto EscondidoUshuaia
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaSpanish
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Argentine Peso (ARS)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-3
Emergency number911117 or 911
Elevation60 m23 m
Main airportPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsUshuaia - Malvinas Argentinas International Airport (USH)4 km from centre9 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto EscondidoUshuaia
City population29,90382,615
People per km²-3,592
Museums within 10 km05
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.