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Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo
The British Columbia Parliament Buildings, Victoria
VictoriaThe British Columbia Parliament Buildings

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

Puerto Escondido or Victoria?

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 Victoria for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Victoria’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, Victoria 28: Puerto Escondido leads by 54 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Escondido 48, Victoria 50: Victoria leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Escondido 8, Victoria 42: Victoria leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Escondido 45, Victoria 30: Puerto Escondido leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Escondido 78, Victoria 77: Puerto Escondido leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Puerto Escondido 35, Victoria 54: Victoria leads by 19 points.
Good for families. Puerto Escondido 42, Victoria 62: Victoria leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Puerto Escondido 40, Victoria 60: Victoria leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Escondido 22, Victoria 40: Victoria leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Puerto Escondido 68, Victoria 34: Puerto Escondido leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Escondido 12, Victoria 40: Victoria leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Escondido 58, Victoria 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 Victoria.

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 prices with your weighting.

Victoria
47match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts 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

Victoria in July

21 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
11 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
16 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.

Victoria's sunshine is measured 87 km from the centre, at Vancouver International Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Puerto Escondido: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (65.6 km from centre). Victoria: 1991-2020 normals, Victoria Gonzales CS (3.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto EscondidoVictoria
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaFrench, English
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation60 m23 m
Main airportPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsVictoria International Airport (YYJ)25 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto EscondidoVictoria
City population29,90391,867
People per km²-4,711
Museums within 10 km06
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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.