Photos: Akumal by Alfonzo Buscemi, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Belfast by Nico Kaiser, CC BY 2.0, cropped.
Akumal or Belfast?
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
- wellness
- families
What lies behind each score is written up on Akumal’s own page.
Choose Belfast for
- live music and the arts
- culture and sights
- getting around
What lies behind each score is written up on Belfast’s own page.
Scoreboard
Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.
What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Akumal and Belfast.
Your match
Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.
Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.
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
Belfast in July
Daytime high, °C
Rainfall in the month, mm
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. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre).
Before you go
| Measure | Akumal | Belfast |
|---|---|---|
| Official language | Spanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya | English |
| Currency | Mexican Peso (MXN) | Pound Sterling (GBP) |
| Sockets | AB127 V, 60 Hz | G230 V, 50 Hz |
| Driving side | Right | Left |
| Time zone | UTC-5 | UTC, UTC+1 in summer |
| Emergency number | 911 | 112 or 999 |
| Elevation | 11 m | 3 m |
| Main airport | Cancún International Airport (CUN)85 km from centre135 non-stop destinations | George Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre25 non-stop destinations |
| Public holidays this year | 9 days | 10 days |
By the numbers
| Measure | Akumal | Belfast |
|---|---|---|
| City population | 2,154 | 345,006 |
| People per km² | - | 3,000 |
| Museums within 10 km | 0 | 8 |
| UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km | 0 | 1 |
| Swim season, months above 21 °C | 12 months | None |
Where else could you go?
Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Akumal or Belfast somewhere new.