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The Château Grimaldi, home of the Musée Picasso, on the sea walls, Antibes
AntibesThe Château Grimaldi, home of the Musée Picasso, on the sea walls
The coastline of the Hotel Zone, Cancun
CancunThe coastline of the Hotel Zone

Photos: Antibes by Johan Allard, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Cancun by Tellez Erik, Pexels License.

Antibes or Cancun?

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 Antibes for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

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

Choose Cancun for

  • nightlife
  • families
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Cancun’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. Antibes 80, Cancun 98: Cancun leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Antibes 50, Cancun 44: Antibes leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Antibes 42, Cancun 15: Antibes leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. Antibes 40, Cancun 70: Cancun leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antibes 70, Cancun 66: Antibes leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Antibes 88, Cancun 65: Antibes leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Antibes 55, Cancun 78: Cancun leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Antibes 62, Cancun 25: Antibes leads by 37 points.
Shopping & style. Antibes 35, Cancun 40: Cancun leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Antibes 30, Cancun 46: Cancun leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antibes 35, Cancun 17: Antibes leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antibes 40, Cancun 55: Cancun leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antibes and Cancun.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Antibes
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Wins on getting around and culture and sights with your weighting.

Cancun
52match

Wins on nightlife and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Antibes in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Cancun in July

30 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
89 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Cancun 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. Antibes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (9.9 km from centre). Cancun: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureAntibesCancun
Official languageFrenchSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number112911
Elevation0 m5 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)11 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsCancún International Airport (CUN)14 km from centre135 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntibesCancun
City population77,637888,797
People per km²2,930-
Museums within 10 km141
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months12 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.