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The coastline of the Hotel Zone, Cancun
CancunThe coastline of the Hotel Zone
The Hassan II Mosque and its minaret, Casablanca
CasablancaThe Hassan II Mosque and its minaret

Photos: Cancun by Tellez Erik, Pexels License; Casablanca by Samir Bakkah, Pexels License.

Cancun or Casablanca?

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 Cancun for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Casablanca for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Casablanca’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. Cancun 98, Casablanca 50: Cancun leads by 48 points.
Food & drink. Cancun 44, Casablanca 60: Casablanca leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Cancun 15, Casablanca 52: Casablanca leads by 37 points.
Nightlife. Cancun 70, Casablanca 44: Cancun leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cancun 66, Casablanca 33: Cancun leads by 33 points.
Day trips. Cancun 65, Casablanca 55: Cancun leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Cancun 78, Casablanca 38: Cancun leads by 40 points.
Getting around. Cancun 25, Casablanca 42: Casablanca leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Cancun 40, Casablanca 50: Casablanca leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Cancun 46, Casablanca 68: Casablanca leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cancun 17, Casablanca 38: Casablanca leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cancun 55, Casablanca 52: Cancun leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cancun and Casablanca.

Your match

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

Cancun
Best match
52match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Casablanca
49match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Casablanca in July

26 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
22 °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

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. Cancun: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Casablanca: 1991-2020 normals, Casablanca (5.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCancunCasablanca
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1
Emergency number911Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation5 m115 m
Main airportCancún International Airport (CUN)14 km from centre137 non-stop destinationsMohammed V International Airport (CMN)26 km from centre112 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCancunCasablanca
City population888,7973,215,935
People per km²-8,375
Museums within 10 km13
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.