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Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo
People's Square (Narodni trg), Zadar
ZadarPeople's Square (Narodni trg)

Photos: Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Zadar by Böhringer Friedrich, CC BY-SA 2.5, cropped.

Puerto Escondido or Zadar?

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

  • wellness
  • prices
  • beaches

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

Choose Zadar for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Zadar’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, Zadar 72: Puerto Escondido leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Escondido 48, Zadar 45: Puerto Escondido leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Escondido 8, Zadar 55: Zadar leads by 47 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Escondido 45, Zadar 38: Puerto Escondido leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Escondido 78, Zadar 82: Zadar leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Puerto Escondido 35, Zadar 70: Zadar leads by 35 points.
Good for families. Puerto Escondido 42, Zadar 55: Zadar leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Puerto Escondido 40, Zadar 58: Zadar leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Escondido 22, Zadar 27: Zadar leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Puerto Escondido 68, Zadar 52: Puerto Escondido leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Escondido 12, Zadar 28: Zadar leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Escondido 58, Zadar 35: Puerto Escondido leads by 23 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Escondido and Zadar.

Your match

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

Puerto Escondido
45match

Wins on wellness and prices with your weighting.

Zadar
Best match
51match

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

Zadar in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
29 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 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.

Zadar 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). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto EscondidoZadar
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaCroatian
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation60 m5 m
Main airportPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre66 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto EscondidoZadar
City population29,90370,779
Museums within 10 km01
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.