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Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo
A chairlift and the runs on Whistler Mountain, Whistler
WhistlerA chairlift and the runs on Whistler Mountain

Photos: Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Whistler by Ruth Hartnup, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Puerto Escondido or Whistler?

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

  • prices
  • beaches
  • food and drink

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

Choose Whistler for

  • getting around
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Whistler’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, Whistler 30: Puerto Escondido leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Escondido 48, Whistler 40: Puerto Escondido leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Escondido 8, Whistler 20: Whistler leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Escondido 45, Whistler 42: Puerto Escondido leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Escondido 78, Whistler 97: Whistler leads by 19 points.
Day trips. Puerto Escondido 35, Whistler 30: Puerto Escondido leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Puerto Escondido 42, Whistler 68: Whistler leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Puerto Escondido 40, Whistler 68: Whistler leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Escondido 22, Whistler 30: Whistler leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Puerto Escondido 68, Whistler 12: Puerto Escondido leads by 56 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Escondido 12, Whistler 15: Whistler leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Escondido 58, Whistler 60: Whistler leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Escondido and Whistler.

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 prices and beaches with your weighting.

Whistler
43match

Wins on getting around and families 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

Whistler in July

25 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
46 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Puerto EscondidoWhistler

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.

Whistler 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). Whistler: 1991-2020 normals, Whistler - Nesters (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto EscondidoWhistler
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 m670 m
Main airportPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)104 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto EscondidoWhistler
City population29,90313,982
People per km²-58
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.