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A palm-lined beach on Akumal Bay, Akumal
AkumalA palm-lined beach on Akumal Bay
The Friedrichsbad, the historic bathhouse, Baden-Baden
Baden-BadenThe Friedrichsbad, the historic bathhouse

Photos: Akumal by Alfonzo Buscemi, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Baden-Baden by Kent Wang, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Akumal or Baden-Baden?

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

  • beaches
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Baden-Baden for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Baden-Baden’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, Baden-Baden 8: Akumal leads by 80 points.
Food & drink. Akumal 28, Baden-Baden 45: Baden-Baden leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Akumal 6, Baden-Baden 52: Baden-Baden leads by 46 points.
Nightlife. Akumal 7, Baden-Baden 15: Baden-Baden leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Akumal 77, Baden-Baden 70: Akumal leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Akumal 68, Baden-Baden 78: Baden-Baden leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Akumal 70, Baden-Baden 50: Akumal leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Akumal 18, Baden-Baden 62: Baden-Baden leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Akumal 7, Baden-Baden 38: Baden-Baden leads by 31 points.
Affordability. Akumal 36, Baden-Baden 30: Akumal leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Akumal 4, Baden-Baden 58: Baden-Baden leads by 54 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Akumal 55, Baden-Baden 96: Baden-Baden leads by 41 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Akumal and Baden-Baden.

Your match

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

Akumal
39match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Baden-Baden
Best match
50match

Wins on live music and the arts 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

Baden-Baden in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
117 mmrain in the month
8 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

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. Baden-Baden: 1991-2020 normals, Baden-Baden-Geroldsau (3.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAkumalBaden-Baden
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaGerman
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation11 m181 m
Main airportCancún International Airport (CUN)85 km from centre135 non-stop destinationsKarlsruhe Baden-Baden Airport (FKB)12 km from centre43 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAkumalBaden-Baden
City population2,15456,952
People per km²-406
Museums within 10 km011
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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.