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Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo
The top of the Mountaintop Express lift on Vail Mountain, Vail
VailThe top of the Mountaintop Express lift on Vail Mountain

Photos: Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Vail by DReifGalaxyM31, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Puerto Escondido or Vail?

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
  • nightlife

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

Choose Vail for

  • live music and the arts
  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Vail’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, Vail 5: Puerto Escondido leads by 77 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Escondido 48, Vail 35: Puerto Escondido leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Escondido 8, Vail 10: Vail leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Escondido 45, Vail 30: Puerto Escondido leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Escondido 78, Vail 92: Vail leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Puerto Escondido 35, Vail 45: Vail leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Puerto Escondido 42, Vail 55: Vail leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Puerto Escondido 40, Vail 62: Vail leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Escondido 22, Vail 35: Vail leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Puerto Escondido 68, Vail 5: Puerto Escondido leads by 63 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Escondido 12, Vail 42: Vail leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Escondido 58, Vail 48: Puerto Escondido leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Escondido and Vail.

Your match

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Puerto Escondido
Best match
45match

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Vail
39match

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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

Vail in July

29 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
35 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine 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.

Vail's temperatures are measured 47 km from the centre, at Kremmling.

Vail's station stands 186 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Vail 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). Vail: 2006-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Kremmling (46.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto EscondidoVail
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya-
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation60 m2,445 m
Main airportPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)48 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto EscondidoVail
City population29,9034,835
People per km²-400
Museums within 10 km01
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.