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Photos: Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Puerto Escondido or Yokohama?

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
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Yokohama’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, Yokohama 46: Puerto Escondido leads by 36 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Escondido 48, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Escondido 8, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 47 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Escondido 45, Yokohama 44: Puerto Escondido leads by 1 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Escondido 78, Yokohama 66: Puerto Escondido leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Puerto Escondido 35, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 51 points.
Good for families. Puerto Escondido 42, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 44 points.
Getting around. Puerto Escondido 40, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 47 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Escondido 22, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 38 points.
Affordability. Puerto Escondido 68, Yokohama 55: Puerto Escondido leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Escondido 12, Yokohama 56: Yokohama leads by 44 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Escondido 58, Yokohama 60: Yokohama 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 Yokohama.

Your match

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

Puerto Escondido
45match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights 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

Yokohama in July

28 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
24 °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.

Yokohama's sunshine is measured 29 km from the centre, at Tokyo.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Puerto Escondido: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (65.6 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto EscondidoYokohama
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaJapanese
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation60 m24 m
Main airportPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto EscondidoYokohama
City population29,9033,757,630
People per km²-8,585
Museums within 10 km038
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 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.