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A palm-lined beach on Akumal Bay, Akumal
AkumalA palm-lined beach on Akumal Bay
Turquoise water off Giftun Island, Hurghada
HurghadaTurquoise water off Giftun Island

Photos: Akumal by Alfonzo Buscemi, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Hurghada by Andrey Korchagin, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Akumal or Hurghada?

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
  • wellness
  • families

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

Choose Hurghada for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Hurghada’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, Hurghada 84: Akumal leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Akumal 28, Hurghada 34: Hurghada leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Akumal 6, Hurghada 14: Hurghada leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Akumal 7, Hurghada 40: Hurghada leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Akumal 77, Hurghada 72: Akumal leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Akumal 68, Hurghada 30: Akumal leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Akumal 70, Hurghada 62: Akumal leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Akumal 18, Hurghada 22: Hurghada leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Akumal 7, Hurghada 24: Hurghada leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Akumal 36, Hurghada 80: Hurghada leads by 44 points.
Live music & performing arts. Akumal 4, Hurghada 10: Hurghada leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Akumal 55, Hurghada 44: Akumal leads by 11 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Akumal and Hurghada.

Your match

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

Akumal
39match

Wins on day trips and wellness with your weighting.

Hurghada
Best match
43match

Wins on prices and nightlife 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
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Hurghada in July

37 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
28 °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. Hurghada: 1991-2020 normals, Hurguada (15.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAkumalHurghada
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaArabic
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Egyptian Pound (EGP)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911Police 122, ambulance 123, fire 180
Elevation11 m11 m
Main airportCancún International Airport (CUN)85 km from centre135 non-stop destinationsHurghada International Airport (HRG)9 km from centre111 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureAkumalHurghada
City population2,154214,247
Museums within 10 km01
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 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.