VacationSelector

Cancun or Frankfurt?

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

Your match

Cancun
50
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Frankfurt
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

CancunFrankfurt
Beaches & swimming. Cancun leads by 97 points.97
CancunFrankfurt
Score970
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km234
Coast distance3 km327 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Frankfurt leads by 16 points.16
CancunFrankfurt
Score5470
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6811,160
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1831
Museums & heritage. Frankfurt leads by 49 points.49
CancunFrankfurt
Score2069
Museums within 10 km179
Museums within 2 km of centre143
Share of museums within 2 km %10054
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Frankfurt leads by 23 points.23
CancunFrankfurt
Score3659
Drinking venues within 4 km270931
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre175691
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6574
Nightclubs within 4 km3356
Nature & day trips. Frankfurt leads by 10 points.10
CancunFrankfurt
Score5464
Protected land share 50 km %928
Landscape blanket share 50 km %011
Land share of disc %45100
Park area within 2 km66 hectares124 hectares
Good for families. Frankfurt leads by 36 points.36
CancunFrankfurt
Score3268
Tourist attractions within 2 km245
Park area within 2 km66 hectares124 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Frankfurt leads by 57 points.57
CancunFrankfurt
Score461
Notable places within 2 km5129
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cancun leads by 16 points.16
CancunFrankfurt
Score7660
Price level global54.275.9
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Cancun leads by 19 points.19
CancunFrankfurt
Score8162
Monthly daytime high26.2 °C to 30.3 °C5 °C to 26.2 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 224 mm38 mm to 68 mm
Dry months11
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
Frankfurt
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Sea temperature, °C
Cancun
27
26
26
27
28
28
29
29
29
29
28
27
Frankfurt
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cancun
63
50
38
41
92
181
89
114
166
224
124
68
Frankfurt
52
44
41
38
62
60
68
60
50
54
53
63
Daylight, hours per day
Cancun
11
11
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Frankfurt
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Cancun
No sunshine record
Frankfurt
2
3
5
7
7
8
8
7
6
4
2
1

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. Frankfurt: 1991-2020 normals, Frankfurt Westend (2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCancunFrankfurt
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 45 m
€321-392
CUN · 14 km
8 h 10 m
€628-668
FRA · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 0 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 13 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
3 h 35 m
€328-337
CUN · 14 km
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 13 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
2 h 10 m
€110-128
CUN · 14 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 25 m
€313-363
1 stop
CUN · 14 km
8 h 50 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
MadridMAD
10 h 0 m
€721-977
CUN · 14 km
2 h 20 m
€145-238
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
12 h 55 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
2 h 50 m
€135-301
FRA · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 20 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
1 h 10 m
€139-148
FRA · 13 km
LisbonLIS
9 h 30 m
€740-984
1 stop
CUN · 14 km
2 h 50 m
€226-277
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
San FranciscoSFO
5 h 15 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
11 h 25 m
€628-763
1 stop
FRA · 13 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

MeasureCancunFrankfurt
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaGerman
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 m101 m
Main airportCancún International Airport (CUN)14 km from centre136 non-stop destinationsFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)13 km from centre293 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureCancunFrankfurt
City population888,797775,790
People per km²3,124
Museums within 10 km153
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre3171
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.