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A palm-lined beach on Akumal Bay, Akumal
AkumalA palm-lined beach on Akumal Bay
Valletta from the water, Valletta
VallettaValletta from the water

Photos: Akumal by Alfonzo Buscemi, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Valletta by Pho Tomass, Pexels License.

Akumal or Valletta?

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

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches

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

Choose Valletta for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Valletta’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, Valletta 68: Akumal leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Akumal 28, Valletta 55: Valletta leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Akumal 6, Valletta 76: Valletta leads by 70 points.
Nightlife. Akumal 7, Valletta 46: Valletta leads by 39 points.
Nature & outdoors. Akumal 77, Valletta 56: Akumal leads by 21 points.
Day trips. Akumal 68, Valletta 76: Valletta leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Akumal 70, Valletta 58: Akumal leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Akumal 18, Valletta 62: Valletta leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Akumal 7, Valletta 38: Valletta leads by 31 points.
Affordability. Akumal 36, Valletta 50: Valletta leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Akumal 4, Valletta 44: Valletta leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Akumal 55, Valletta 32: Akumal leads by 23 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Akumal and Valletta.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Akumal
39match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Valletta
Best match
55match

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

Valletta in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
25 °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. Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAkumalValletta
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation11 m56 m
Main airportCancún International Airport (CUN)85 km from centre135 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre113 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAkumalValletta
City population2,1545,197
People per km²-6,496
Museums within 10 km016
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months6 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.