VacationSelector

Cadiz or Cancun?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Cadiz
49
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families with your weighting.

Cancun
50
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

CadizCancun
Beaches & swimming. Cancun leads by 27 points.27
CadizCancun
Score7097
Swim season months312
Beaches 10 km2923
Coast distance0 km3 km
Water distance0 km3 km
Places to eat. Cancun leads by 10 points.10
CadizCancun
Score4454
Restaurants within 2 km of centre338681
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1818
Museums & heritage. Cadiz leads by 16 points.16
CadizCancun
Score3620
Museums within 10 km231
Museums within 2 km of centre161
Share of museums within 2 km %70100
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Cancun leads by 6 points.6
CadizCancun
Score3036
Drinking venues within 4 km241270
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre175175
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7365
Nightclubs within 4 km633
Nature & day trips. Cancun leads by 28 points.28
CadizCancun
Score2654
Protected land share 50 km %49
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4545
Park area within 2 km24 hectares66 hectares
Good for families. Cadiz leads by 22 points.22
CadizCancun
Score5432
Tourist attractions within 2 km802
Park area within 2 km24 hectares66 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Cadiz leads by 27 points.27
CadizCancun
Score314
Notable places within 2 km235
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cancun leads by 5 points.5
CadizCancun
Score7176
Price level global60.854.2
Daily budget€122—
Year-round weather. Cadiz leads by 2 points.2
CadizCancun
Score8381
Monthly daytime high16.2 °C to 28 °C26.2 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 89 mm38 mm to 224 mm
Dry months51
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Cadiz
16
17
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
20
17
Cancun
26
27
28
29
30
30
30
30
30
29
27
27
Sea temperature, °C
Cadiz
16
15
16
17
18
21
23
23
22
20
18
17
Cancun
27
26
26
27
28
28
29
29
29
29
28
27
Rainfall, mm
Cadiz
62
52
54
43
32
6
0
2
29
76
89
73
Cancun
63
50
38
41
92
181
89
114
166
224
124
68
Daylight, hours per day
Cadiz
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Cancun
11
11
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Cadiz
6
7
8
9
11
12
12
11
9
8
6
5
Cancun
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cadiz: 1991-2020 normals, Cadiz Bay / Puntales (5.2 km from centre). Cancun: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromCadizCancun
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
10 h 0 m
€721-977
CUN · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 35 m
€83-157
TNG · 95 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 5 m
€36-67
SVQ · 105 km
9 h 30 m
€740-984
1 stop
CUN · 14 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€89-105
SVQ · 105 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
DublinDUB
2 h 45 m
no fares
SVQ · 105 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 5 m
no fares
TNG · 95 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 55 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
10 h 45 m
€657-706
1 stop
CUN · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 40 m
no fares
TNG · 95 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureCadizCancun
Official languageSpanishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number112911
Elevation11 m5 m
Main airportJerez Airport (XRY)31 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsCancún International Airport (CUN)14 km from centre136 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureCadizCancun
City population109,950888,797
People per km²9,087–
Museums within 10 km111
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre2831
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months12 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.