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A palm-lined beach on Akumal Bay, Akumal
AkumalA palm-lined beach on Akumal Bay
Praia Mole in Florianopolis, Florianopolis
FlorianopolisPraia Mole in Florianopolis

Photos: Akumal by Alfonzo Buscemi, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Florianopolis by Papa Pic, CC0.

Akumal or Florianopolis?

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

  • day trips
  • families
  • wellness

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

Choose Florianopolis for

  • nightlife
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Florianopolis’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, Florianopolis 85: Akumal leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. Akumal 28, Florianopolis 58: Florianopolis leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Akumal 6, Florianopolis 33: Florianopolis leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. Akumal 7, Florianopolis 60: Florianopolis leads by 53 points.
Nature & outdoors. Akumal 77, Florianopolis 78: Florianopolis leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Akumal 68, Florianopolis 50: Akumal leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Akumal 70, Florianopolis 60: Akumal leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Akumal 18, Florianopolis 28: Florianopolis leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Akumal 7, Florianopolis 33: Florianopolis leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Akumal 36, Florianopolis 60: Florianopolis leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Akumal 4, Florianopolis 28: Florianopolis leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Akumal 55, Florianopolis 45: Akumal leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Akumal and Florianopolis.

Your match

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

Akumal
39match

Wins on day trips and families with your weighting.

Florianopolis
Best match
52match

Wins on nightlife and food and drink 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

Florianopolis in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
91 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
11 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. Florianopolis: 1991-2020 normals, Florianopolis (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAkumalFlorianopolis
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaPortuguese
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-3
Emergency number911Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation11 m3 m
Main airportCancún International Airport (CUN)85 km from centre135 non-stop destinationsHercílio Luz International Airport (FLN)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAkumalFlorianopolis
City population2,154587,486
People per km²-870
Museums within 10 km011
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months7 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.