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A palm-lined beach on Akumal Bay, Akumal
AkumalA palm-lined beach on Akumal Bay
Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo
TokyoShibuya Crossing

Photos: Akumal by Alfonzo Buscemi, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Tokyo by Benh LIEU SONG, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Akumal or Tokyo?

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

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

Choose Tokyo for

  • shopping
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Tokyo’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, Tokyo 40: Akumal leads by 48 points.
Food & drink. Akumal 28, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 70 points.
Culture & sights. Akumal 6, Tokyo 84: Tokyo leads by 78 points.
Nightlife. Akumal 7, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 79 points.
Nature & outdoors. Akumal 77, Tokyo 68: Akumal leads by 9 points.
Day trips. Akumal 68, Tokyo 85: Tokyo leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Akumal 70, Tokyo 95: Tokyo leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Akumal 18, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 80 points.
Shopping & style. Akumal 7, Tokyo 99: Tokyo leads by 92 points.
Affordability. Akumal 36, Tokyo 48: Tokyo leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Akumal 4, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 82 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Akumal 55, Tokyo 78: Tokyo leads by 23 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Akumal and Tokyo.

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.

Tokyo
Best match
80match

Wins on shopping and live music and the arts 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

Tokyo in July

30 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
157 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
23 °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. Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAkumalTokyo
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaJapanese
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation11 m6 m
Main airportCancún International Airport (CUN)85 km from centre135 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAkumalTokyo
City population2,15414,264,798
People per km²-6,501
Museums within 10 km0192
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 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.