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A palm-lined beach on Akumal Bay, Akumal
AkumalA palm-lined beach on Akumal Bay
The White Tower from the promenade, Thessaloniki
ThessalonikiThe White Tower from the promenade

Photos: Akumal by Alfonzo Buscemi, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Thessaloniki by Destinygreece, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Akumal or Thessaloniki?

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
  • families

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

Choose Thessaloniki for

  • nightlife
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Thessaloniki’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, Thessaloniki 55: Akumal leads by 33 points.
Food & drink. Akumal 28, Thessaloniki 77: Thessaloniki leads by 49 points.
Culture & sights. Akumal 6, Thessaloniki 73: Thessaloniki leads by 67 points.
Nightlife. Akumal 7, Thessaloniki 76: Thessaloniki leads by 69 points.
Nature & outdoors. Akumal 77, Thessaloniki 66: Akumal leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Akumal 68, Thessaloniki 74: Thessaloniki leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Akumal 70, Thessaloniki 50: Akumal leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Akumal 18, Thessaloniki 60: Thessaloniki leads by 42 points.
Shopping & style. Akumal 7, Thessaloniki 50: Thessaloniki leads by 43 points.
Affordability. Akumal 36, Thessaloniki 66: Thessaloniki leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Akumal 4, Thessaloniki 52: Thessaloniki leads by 48 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Akumal 55, Thessaloniki 33: Akumal leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Akumal and Thessaloniki.

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.

Thessaloniki
Best match
61match

Wins on nightlife 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

Thessaloniki in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
26 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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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. Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAkumalThessaloniki
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaGreek
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation11 m6 m
Main airportCancún International Airport (CUN)85 km from centre135 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre90 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureAkumalThessaloniki
City population2,154309,617
People per km²-16,042
Museums within 10 km032
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 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.