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A palm-lined beach on Akumal Bay, Akumal
AkumalA palm-lined beach on Akumal Bay
The Campanile, Trinity College, Dublin
DublinThe Campanile, Trinity College

Photos: Akumal by Alfonzo Buscemi, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Dublin by David Kernan, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Akumal or Dublin?

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
  • prices

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

Choose Dublin for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Dublin’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, Dublin 27: Akumal leads by 61 points.
Food & drink. Akumal 28, Dublin 50: Dublin leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Akumal 6, Dublin 64: Dublin leads by 58 points.
Nightlife. Akumal 7, Dublin 62: Dublin leads by 55 points.
Nature & outdoors. Akumal 77, Dublin 70: Akumal leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Akumal 68, Dublin 72: Dublin leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Akumal 70, Dublin 57: Akumal leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Akumal 18, Dublin 66: Dublin leads by 48 points.
Shopping & style. Akumal 7, Dublin 54: Dublin leads by 47 points.
Affordability. Akumal 36, Dublin 20: Akumal leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Akumal 4, Dublin 65: Dublin leads by 61 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Akumal 55, Dublin 25: Akumal leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Akumal and Dublin.

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.

Dublin
Best match
53match

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

Dublin in July

20 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
62 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
15 °Csea
17 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. Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAkumalDublin
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaEnglish, Irish
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation11 m20 m
Main airportCancún International Airport (CUN)85 km from centre135 non-stop destinationsDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre200 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAkumalDublin
City population2,154592,713
People per km²-5,154
Museums within 10 km040
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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.