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The Best Season for a Puerto Escondido Elopement

A tropical Pacific coast with a dry, sunny high season and a green, stormy low one. When the surf, the sunsets, and the glowing lagoons are each at their best.

You assume any month works on a Pacific beach.

The season decides whether you get dry golden sun or green afternoon storms.

Puerto Escondido has a dry high season and a green low one, and each brings its own version of the coast.

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A wide Pacific beach at sunset under a clear sky on the Oaxaca coast
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The dry season

November through April is the dry window: reliable sun, warm days, calm evenings, and the most dependable weather for the beaches and the sunsets. It is the high season for good reason, and the one I plan most Puerto Escondido elopements around.

Couple on a sunny dry-season Puerto Escondido beach Oaxaca Mexico
November through April is the dry window: reliable sun, warm days, calm evenings, and the most dependable weather for the beaches and the sunsets. The high season, for good reason. — stationary
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The dry season

Couple on a sunny dry-season Puerto Escondido beach Oaxaca Mexico
November through April is the dry window: reliable sun, warm days, calm evenings, and the most dependable weather for the beaches and the sunsets. The high season, for good reason. — stationary

November through April is the dry window: reliable sun, warm days, calm evenings, and the most dependable weather for the beaches and the sunsets. It is the high season for good reason, and the one I plan most Puerto Escondido elopements around.

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The green season and the wonders

May through October is hotter and wetter with afternoon storms, but the coast turns lush and green, the surf is biggest, and the summer nights bring the strongest bioluminescence in the lagoons. A green-season date can deliver the wildest version of the coast with a flexible, weather-aware plan.

Pick dry-and-golden or green-and-wild, then hand me the date. As your Elopement Curator I plan the day around the season and the light, coordinate the ceremony, and both shoot and film it. Twelve years and 240+ couples in, the dry season is the one I recommend most for Puerto Escondido.

Let the Elopement Compass match your season to your day →

Couple on the lush green-season Puerto Escondido coast Oaxaca Mexico
May through October is hotter and wetter with afternoon storms, but the coast turns lush, the surf is biggest, and summer nights bring the strongest bioluminescence. The wildest version of the coast, with a flexible plan. — stationary
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