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A palm-lined beach on Akumal Bay, Akumal
AkumalA palm-lined beach on Akumal Bay
The floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima, Hiroshima
HiroshimaThe floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima

Photos: Akumal by Alfonzo Buscemi, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Hiroshima by Guohua Song, Pexels License.

Akumal or Hiroshima?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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

Choose Hiroshima for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Hiroshima’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, Hiroshima 30: Akumal leads by 58 points.
Food & drink. Akumal 28, Hiroshima 66: Hiroshima leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Akumal 6, Hiroshima 60: Hiroshima leads by 54 points.
Nightlife. Akumal 7, Hiroshima 45: Hiroshima leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Akumal 77, Hiroshima 62: Akumal leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Akumal 68, Hiroshima 80: Hiroshima leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Akumal 70, Hiroshima 60: Akumal leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Akumal 18, Hiroshima 74: Hiroshima leads by 56 points.
Shopping & style. Akumal 7, Hiroshima 52: Hiroshima leads by 45 points.
Affordability. Akumal 36, Hiroshima 58: Hiroshima leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Akumal 4, Hiroshima 38: Hiroshima leads by 34 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Akumal 55, Hiroshima 50: Akumal leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Akumal and Hiroshima.

Your match

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

Akumal
39match

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

Hiroshima
Best match
56match

Wins on getting around 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

Hiroshima in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
299 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
24 °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. Hiroshima: 1991-2020 normals, Hiroshima (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAkumalHiroshima
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaJapanese
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation11 m3 m
Main airportCancún International Airport (CUN)85 km from centre135 non-stop destinationsHiroshima Airport (HIJ)43 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAkumalHiroshima
City population2,1541,198,021
People per km²-1,324
Museums within 10 km018
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.