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A palm-lined beach on Akumal Bay, Akumal
AkumalA palm-lined beach on Akumal Bay
The cathedral on Plaza de Bolivar, Bogota
BogotaThe cathedral on Plaza de Bolivar

Photos: Akumal by Alfonzo Buscemi, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Bogota by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Akumal or Bogota?

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 Bogota for

  • nightlife
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Bogota’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, Bogota 5: Akumal leads by 83 points.
Food & drink. Akumal 28, Bogota 66: Bogota leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Akumal 6, Bogota 68: Bogota leads by 62 points.
Nightlife. Akumal 7, Bogota 72: Bogota leads by 65 points.
Nature & outdoors. Akumal 77, Bogota 64: Akumal leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Akumal 68, Bogota 52: Akumal leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Akumal 70, Bogota 45: Akumal leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Akumal 18, Bogota 36: Bogota leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Akumal 7, Bogota 52: Bogota leads by 45 points.
Affordability. Akumal 36, Bogota 77: Bogota leads by 41 points.
Live music & performing arts. Akumal 4, Bogota 64: Bogota leads by 60 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Akumal 55, Bogota 28: Akumal leads by 27 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Akumal and Bogota.

Your match

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

Akumal
39match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Bogota
Best match
52match

Wins on nightlife 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

Bogota in July

17 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
49 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
12 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. Bogota: 1991-2020 normals, Bogota / Eldorado (14.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAkumalBogota
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaSpanish
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Colombian Peso (COP)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-5
Emergency number911123
Elevation11 m2,582 m
Main airportCancún International Airport (CUN)85 km from centre135 non-stop destinationsEl Dorado International Airport (BOG)13 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days19 days

By the numbers

MeasureAkumalBogota
City population2,1548,034,649
People per km²-5,092
Museums within 10 km030
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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. 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.