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A palm-lined beach on Akumal Bay, Akumal
AkumalA palm-lined beach on Akumal Bay
The Château Grimaldi, home of the Musée Picasso, on the sea walls, Antibes
AntibesThe Château Grimaldi, home of the Musée Picasso, on the sea walls

Photos: Akumal by Alfonzo Buscemi, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Antibes by Johan Allard, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Akumal or Antibes?

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 Akumal for

  • families
  • wellness
  • beaches

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

Choose Antibes for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Antibes’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. Akumal 88, Antibes 80: Akumal leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Akumal 28, Antibes 50: Antibes leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Akumal 6, Antibes 42: Antibes leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Akumal 7, Antibes 40: Antibes leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Akumal 77, Antibes 70: Akumal leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Akumal 68, Antibes 88: Antibes leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Akumal 70, Antibes 55: Akumal leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Akumal 18, Antibes 62: Antibes leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Akumal 7, Antibes 35: Antibes leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Akumal 36, Antibes 30: Akumal leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Akumal 4, Antibes 35: Antibes leads by 31 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Akumal 55, Antibes 40: Akumal leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Akumal and Antibes.

Your match

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

Akumal
39match

Wins on families and wellness with your weighting.

Antibes
Best match
52match

Wins on getting around 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.

Akumal in July

30 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
119 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Antibes in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine 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

Akumal has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Akumal: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Antibes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (9.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAkumalAntibes
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaFrench
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation11 m0 m
Main airportCancún International Airport (CUN)85 km from centre135 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)11 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAkumalAntibes
City population2,15477,637
People per km²-2,930
Museums within 10 km014
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). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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.