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Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo
Valletta from the water, Valletta
VallettaValletta from the water

Photos: Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Valletta by Pho Tomass, Pexels License.

Puerto Escondido or Valletta?

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

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

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

Choose Valletta for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Valletta’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, Valletta 68: Puerto Escondido leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Escondido 48, Valletta 55: Valletta leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Escondido 8, Valletta 76: Valletta leads by 68 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Escondido 45, Valletta 46: Valletta leads by 1 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Escondido 78, Valletta 56: Puerto Escondido leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Puerto Escondido 35, Valletta 76: Valletta leads by 41 points.
Good for families. Puerto Escondido 42, Valletta 58: Valletta leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Puerto Escondido 40, Valletta 62: Valletta leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Escondido 22, Valletta 38: Valletta leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Puerto Escondido 68, Valletta 50: Puerto Escondido leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Escondido 12, Valletta 44: Valletta leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Escondido 58, Valletta 32: Puerto Escondido leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Escondido and Valletta.

Your match

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

Puerto Escondido
45match

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

Valletta
Best match
55match

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

Valletta in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 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). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto EscondidoValletta
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation60 m56 m
Main airportPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre113 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto EscondidoValletta
City population29,9035,197
People per km²-6,496
Museums within 10 km016
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months6 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. 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.