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Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo
York Minster from the city walls, York
YorkYork Minster from the city walls

Photos: Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; York by PAUL FARMER, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Puerto Escondido or York?

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
  • wellness

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

Choose York for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on York’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, York 14: Puerto Escondido leads by 68 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Escondido 48, York 42: Puerto Escondido leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Escondido 8, York 70: York leads by 62 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Escondido 45, York 36: Puerto Escondido leads by 9 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Escondido 78, York 62: Puerto Escondido leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Puerto Escondido 35, York 80: York leads by 45 points.
Good for families. Puerto Escondido 42, York 60: York leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Puerto Escondido 40, York 72: York leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Escondido 22, York 46: York leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Puerto Escondido 68, York 38: Puerto Escondido leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Escondido 12, York 38: York leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Escondido 58, York 34: Puerto Escondido leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Escondido and York.

Your match

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Puerto Escondido
45match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

York
Best match
49match

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

York in July

21 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
62 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
No seasea
17 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.

York 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.

York's sunshine is measured 48 km from the centre, at Leeming.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Puerto Escondido: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (65.6 km from centre). York: 1991-2020 normals, Linton-On-Ouse (14.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto EscondidoYork
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaEnglish
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 999
Elevation60 m25 m
Main airportPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre69 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto EscondidoYork
City population29,903208,400
People per km²-766
Museums within 10 km024
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.