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Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo
The Bell Tower of Xi'an under a blue sky, Xi'an
Xi'anThe Bell Tower of Xi'an under a blue sky

Photos: Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Xi'an by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Puerto Escondido or Xi'an?

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
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Xi'an for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Xi'an’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, Xi'an 4: Puerto Escondido leads by 78 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Escondido 48, Xi'an 70: Xi'an leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Escondido 8, Xi'an 81: Xi'an leads by 73 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Escondido 45, Xi'an 42: Puerto Escondido leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Escondido 78, Xi'an 62: Puerto Escondido leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Puerto Escondido 35, Xi'an 80: Xi'an leads by 45 points.
Good for families. Puerto Escondido 42, Xi'an 48: Xi'an leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Puerto Escondido 40, Xi'an 66: Xi'an leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Escondido 22, Xi'an 50: Xi'an leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Puerto Escondido 68, Xi'an 80: Xi'an leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Escondido 12, Xi'an 40: Xi'an leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Escondido 58, Xi'an 40: Puerto Escondido leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Escondido and Xi'an.

Your match

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

Puerto Escondido
45match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Xi'an
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

Xi'an in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
96 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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). Xi'an: 1991-2020 normals, Xi'An (4.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto EscondidoXi'an
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaPutonghua
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzACI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+8
Emergency number911Police 110, ambulance 120, fire 119
Elevation60 m405 m
Main airportPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsXi'an Xianyang International Airport (XIY)26 km from centre178 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days6 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto EscondidoXi'an
City population29,90312,952,907
People per km²-1,283
Museums within 10 km09
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
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.