VacationSelector

Cancun or Cordoba?

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

Your match

Cancun
✓ Best match
50
match

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

Cordoba
47
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families 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.

CancunCordoba
Beaches & swimming. Cancun leads by 97 points.97
CancunCordoba
Score970
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km230
Coast distance3 km134 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Cancun leads by 7 points.7
CancunCordoba
Score5447
Restaurants within 2 km of centre681616
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1813
Museums & heritage. Cordoba leads by 27 points.27
CancunCordoba
Score2047
Museums within 10 km120
Museums within 2 km of centre119
Share of museums within 2 km %10095
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Cordoba leads by 7 points.7
CancunCordoba
Score3643
Drinking venues within 4 km270444
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre175353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6580
Nightclubs within 4 km3314
Nature & day trips. Cancun leads by 17 points.17
CancunCordoba
Score5437
Protected land share 50 km %96
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %45100
Park area within 2 km66 hectares108 hectares
Good for families. Cordoba leads by 31 points.31
CancunCordoba
Score3263
Tourist attractions within 2 km259
Park area within 2 km66 hectares108 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Cordoba leads by 40 points.40
CancunCordoba
Score444
Notable places within 2 km548
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cancun leads by 5 points.5
CancunCordoba
Score7671
Price level global54.260.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Cancun leads by 9 points.9
CancunCordoba
Score8172
Monthly daytime high26.2 °C to 30.3 °C15.1 °C to 37.1 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 224 mm1 mm to 91 mm
Dry months14
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
Cancun
26
27
28
29
30
30
30
30
30
29
27
27
Cordoba
15
17
21
24
28
33
37
37
32
26
19
16
Sea temperature, °C
Cancun
27
26
26
27
28
28
29
29
29
29
28
27
Cordoba
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cancun
63
50
38
41
92
181
89
114
166
224
124
68
Cordoba
57
53
63
54
43
11
1
7
37
79
79
91
Daylight, hours per day
Cancun
11
11
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Cordoba
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Cancun
No sunshine record
Cordoba
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cancun: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Cordoba: 1991-2020 normals, Cordoba / Aeropuerto (7.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromCancunCordoba
BarcelonaBCN
10 h 35 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
1 h 35 m
€111-178
1 stop
SVQ · 111 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 0 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 20 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
2 h 25 m
€99-133
1 stop
SVQ · 111 km
MadridMAD
10 h 0 m
€721-977
CUN · 14 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
4 h 10 m
€361-445
1 stop
CUN · 14 km
7 h 25 m
no fares
AGP · 137 km
AmsterdamAMS
10 h 25 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
2 h 50 m
€180-230
1 stop
SVQ · 111 km
LisbonLIS
9 h 30 m
€740-984
1 stop
CUN · 14 km
1 h 5 m
€36-67
SVQ · 111 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 30 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
3 h 35 m
€328-337
CUN · 14 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 137 km
DublinDUB
9 h 30 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 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

MeasureCancunCordoba
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaSpanish
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation5 m120 m
Main airportCancún International Airport (CUN)14 km from centre136 non-stop destinationsCórdoba Airport (ODB)8 km from centre3 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCancunCordoba
City population888,797323,262
People per km²258
Museums within 10 km116
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre3127
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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. 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.