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A palm-lined beach on Akumal Bay, Akumal
AkumalA palm-lined beach on Akumal Bay
The Hassan II Mosque and its minaret, Casablanca
CasablancaThe Hassan II Mosque and its minaret

Photos: Akumal by Alfonzo Buscemi, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Casablanca by Samir Bakkah, Pexels License.

Akumal or Casablanca?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • families

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

Choose Casablanca for

  • culture and sights
  • shopping
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Casablanca’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, Casablanca 50: Akumal leads by 38 points.
Food & drink. Akumal 28, Casablanca 60: Casablanca leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Akumal 6, Casablanca 52: Casablanca leads by 46 points.
Nightlife. Akumal 7, Casablanca 44: Casablanca leads by 37 points.
Nature & outdoors. Akumal 77, Casablanca 33: Akumal leads by 44 points.
Day trips. Akumal 68, Casablanca 55: Akumal leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Akumal 70, Casablanca 38: Akumal leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Akumal 18, Casablanca 42: Casablanca leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Akumal 7, Casablanca 50: Casablanca leads by 43 points.
Affordability. Akumal 36, Casablanca 68: Casablanca leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Akumal 4, Casablanca 38: Casablanca leads by 34 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Akumal 55, Casablanca 52: Akumal leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Akumal and Casablanca.

Your match

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

Akumal
39match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches with your weighting.

Casablanca
Best match
49match

Wins on culture and sights and shopping 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

Casablanca in July

26 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
22 °Csea
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

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. Casablanca: 1991-2020 normals, Casablanca (5.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAkumalCasablanca
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1
Emergency number911Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation11 m115 m
Main airportCancún International Airport (CUN)85 km from centre135 non-stop destinationsMohammed V International Airport (CMN)26 km from centre112 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAkumalCasablanca
City population2,1543,215,935
People per km²-8,375
Museums within 10 km03
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 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.