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Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo
The Limmat from Quaibrücke, Zurich
ZurichThe Limmat from Quaibrücke

Photos: Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Zurich by Daniel Kraft, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Puerto Escondido or Zurich?

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

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

Choose Zurich for

  • live music and the arts
  • getting around
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Zurich’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, Zurich 45: Puerto Escondido leads by 37 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Escondido 48, Zurich 53: Zurich leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Escondido 8, Zurich 58: Zurich leads by 50 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Escondido 45, Zurich 62: Zurich leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Escondido 78, Zurich 80: Zurich leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Puerto Escondido 35, Zurich 84: Zurich leads by 49 points.
Good for families. Puerto Escondido 42, Zurich 76: Zurich leads by 34 points.
Getting around. Puerto Escondido 40, Zurich 95: Zurich leads by 55 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Escondido 22, Zurich 66: Zurich leads by 44 points.
Affordability. Puerto Escondido 68, Zurich 3: Puerto Escondido leads by 65 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Escondido 12, Zurich 70: Zurich leads by 58 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Escondido and Zurich are level on 58.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Escondido and Zurich.

Your match

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

Puerto Escondido
45match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

Zurich
Best match
63match

Wins on live music and the arts and getting around 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

Zurich in July

24 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
126 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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). Zurich: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (2.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePuerto EscondidoZurich
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation60 m408 m
Main airportPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)9 km from centre226 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto EscondidoZurich
City population29,903440,935
People per km²-5,016
Museums within 10 km063
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. 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.