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A palm-lined beach on Akumal Bay, Akumal
AkumalA palm-lined beach on Akumal Bay
The skyline reflected in the water, The Hague
The HagueThe skyline reflected in the water

Photos: Akumal by Alfonzo Buscemi, CC BY 3.0, cropped; The Hague by Bráulio jardim, Pexels License.

Akumal or The Hague?

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
  • wellness

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

Choose The Hague for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on The Hague’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, The Hague 38: Akumal leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Akumal 28, The Hague 48: The Hague leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Akumal 6, The Hague 66: The Hague leads by 60 points.
Nightlife. Akumal 7, The Hague 38: The Hague leads by 31 points.
Nature & outdoors. Akumal 77, The Hague 52: Akumal leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Akumal 68, The Hague 86: The Hague leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Akumal 70, The Hague 72: The Hague leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Akumal 18, The Hague 78: The Hague leads by 60 points.
Shopping & style. Akumal 7, The Hague 55: The Hague leads by 48 points.
Affordability. Akumal 36, The Hague 35: Akumal leads by 1 points.
Live music & performing arts. Akumal 4, The Hague 58: The Hague leads by 54 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Akumal 55, The Hague 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 The Hague.

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.

The Hague
Best match
56match

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

The Hague in July

21 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
78 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
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.

The Hague has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

The Hague's sunshine is measured 60 km from the centre, at De Bilt.

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. The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAkumalThe Hague
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaDutch
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation11 m1 m
Main airportCancún International Airport (CUN)85 km from centre135 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAkumalThe Hague
City population2,154548,320
People per km²-5,589
Museums within 10 km054
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
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. 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.