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A palm-lined beach on Akumal Bay, Akumal
AkumalA palm-lined beach on Akumal Bay
The railway viaduct over the canal, Castlefield, Manchester
ManchesterThe railway viaduct over the canal, Castlefield

Photos: Akumal by Alfonzo Buscemi, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Manchester by IIya Kuzhekin, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Akumal or Manchester?

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
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Manchester for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Manchester’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, Manchester 9: Akumal leads by 79 points.
Food & drink. Akumal 28, Manchester 51: Manchester leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Akumal 6, Manchester 50: Manchester leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Akumal 7, Manchester 72: Manchester leads by 65 points.
Nature & outdoors. Akumal 77, Manchester 64: Akumal leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Akumal 68, Manchester 77: Manchester leads by 9 points.
Good for families. Akumal 70, Manchester 58: Akumal leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Akumal 18, Manchester 68: Manchester leads by 50 points.
Shopping & style. Akumal 7, Manchester 62: Manchester leads by 55 points.
Affordability. Akumal 36, Manchester 42: Manchester leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Akumal 4, Manchester 74: Manchester leads by 70 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Akumal 55, Manchester 15: Akumal leads by 40 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Akumal and Manchester.

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.

Manchester
Best match
54match

Wins on live music and the arts 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
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Manchester in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
60 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
16 °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. Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAkumalManchester
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaEnglish
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 999
Elevation11 m38 m
Main airportCancún International Airport (CUN)85 km from centre135 non-stop destinationsManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre211 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureAkumalManchester
City population2,154547,627
People per km²-4,737
Museums within 10 km028
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
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. 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.