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A palm-lined beach on Akumal Bay, Akumal
AkumalA palm-lined beach on Akumal Bay
Half-timbered houses on the canal, Petite France, Strasbourg
StrasbourgHalf-timbered houses on the canal, Petite France

Photos: Akumal by Alfonzo Buscemi, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Strasbourg by Edoardo Colombo, Pexels License.

Akumal or Strasbourg?

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 Strasbourg for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Strasbourg’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, Strasbourg 10: Akumal leads by 78 points.
Food & drink. Akumal 28, Strasbourg 66: Strasbourg leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Akumal 6, Strasbourg 70: Strasbourg leads by 64 points.
Nightlife. Akumal 7, Strasbourg 40: Strasbourg leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Akumal 77, Strasbourg 62: Akumal leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Akumal 68, Strasbourg 80: Strasbourg leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Akumal 70, Strasbourg 66: Akumal leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Akumal 18, Strasbourg 79: Strasbourg leads by 61 points.
Shopping & style. Akumal 7, Strasbourg 52: Strasbourg leads by 45 points.
Affordability. Akumal 36, Strasbourg 44: Strasbourg leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Akumal 4, Strasbourg 56: Strasbourg leads by 52 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Akumal and Strasbourg are level on 55.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Akumal and Strasbourg.

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.

Strasbourg
Best match
57match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around 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

Strasbourg in July

26 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
72 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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. Strasbourg: 1991-2020 normals, Strasbourg (9.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAkumalStrasbourg
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaFrench
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation11 m132 m
Main airportCancún International Airport (CUN)85 km from centre135 non-stop destinationsStrasbourg Airport (SXB)10 km from centre43 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAkumalStrasbourg
City population2,154293,771
People per km²-3,752
Museums within 10 km021
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. 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.