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The beach with the bay and the skyline behind, Acapulco
AcapulcoThe beach with the bay and the skyline behind
The Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel, Amman
AmmanThe Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel

Photos: Acapulco by Felicia Navarrete, Pexels License; Amman by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Acapulco or Amman?

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 Acapulco for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • prices

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

Choose Amman for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Amman’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. Acapulco 80, Amman 22: Acapulco leads by 58 points.
Food & drink. Acapulco 55, Amman 62: Amman leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Acapulco 28, Amman 54: Amman leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Acapulco 64, Amman 32: Acapulco leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Acapulco 50, Amman 45: Acapulco leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Acapulco 15, Amman 80: Amman leads by 65 points.
Good for families. Acapulco 45, Amman 38: Acapulco leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Acapulco and Amman are level on 30.
Shopping & style. Acapulco 32, Amman 42: Amman leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Acapulco 74, Amman 58: Acapulco leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Acapulco 26, Amman 27: Amman leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Acapulco 32, Amman 55: Amman leads by 23 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Acapulco and Amman.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Acapulco
44match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Amman
45match

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.

Acapulco in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
226 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Amman in July

33 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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

Amman 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.

Amman's sunshine is measured 55 km from the centre, at Mafraq.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Acapulco: 1991-2020 normals, Acapulco, Gro. (5.9 km from centre). Amman: 1994-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Amman Airport (6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAcapulcoAmman
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaArabic
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Jordanian Dinar (JOD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzBCFGJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+3
Emergency number911911
Elevation18 m776 m
Main airportGeneral Juan N. Álvarez International Airport (ACA)18 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsQueen Alia International Airport (AMM)26 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAcapulcoAmman
City population658,6094,007,526
People per km²3502,385
Museums within 10 km38
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
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.