VacationSelector

Cancun or Hamburg?

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.

Hamburg
✓ Best match
53
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.

CancunHamburg
Beaches & swimming. Cancun leads by 97 points.97
CancunHamburg
Score970
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km2316
Coast distance3 km22 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Hamburg leads by 19 points.19
CancunHamburg
Score5473
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6811,150
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1838
Museums & heritage. Hamburg leads by 40 points.40
CancunHamburg
Score2060
Museums within 10 km194
Museums within 2 km of centre150
Share of museums within 2 km %10053
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Hamburg leads by 32 points.32
CancunHamburg
Score3668
Drinking venues within 4 km2701,339
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre175834
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6562
Nightclubs within 4 km33119
Nature & day trips. Cancun leads by 14 points.14
CancunHamburg
Score5440
Protected land share 50 km %914
Landscape blanket share 50 km %010
Land share of disc %4599
Park area within 2 km66 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Hamburg leads by 28 points.28
CancunHamburg
Score3260
Tourist attractions within 2 km240
Park area within 2 km66 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Hamburg leads by 55 points.55
CancunHamburg
Score459
Notable places within 2 km5118
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cancun leads by 16 points.16
CancunHamburg
Score7660
Price level global54.275.9
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Cancun leads by 26 points.26
CancunHamburg
Score8155
Monthly daytime high26.2 °C to 30.3 °C4.3 °C to 23.2 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 224 mm39 mm to 82 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
Hamburg
4
5
9
14
18
21
23
23
19
14
8
5
Sea temperature, °C
Cancun
27
26
26
27
28
28
29
29
29
29
28
27
Hamburg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cancun
63
50
38
41
92
181
89
114
166
224
124
68
Hamburg
67
55
57
39
58
74
82
77
65
63
61
72
Daylight, hours per day
Cancun
11
11
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Hamburg
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Cancun
No sunshine record
Hamburg
1
2
4
6
7
7
7
7
5
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. Hamburg: 1991-2020 normals, Hamburg Airport (9.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCancunHamburg
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 45 m
€657-706
1 stop
CUN · 14 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 0 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
1 h 35 m
€89-225
HAM · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
12 h 55 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
3 h 0 m
€178-237
HAM · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 20 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
1 h 30 m
€155-168
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
ZurichZRH
10 h 55 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
1 h 30 m
€216-237
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
MadridMAD
10 h 0 m
€721-977
CUN · 14 km
2 h 45 m
€193
HAM · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
10 h 25 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
1 h 5 m
€337-378
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
DublinDUB
9 h 30 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
LisbonLIS
9 h 30 m
€740-984
1 stop
CUN · 14 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
10 h 35 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
2 h 25 m
€127-153
HAM · 9 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 2026-09 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

MeasureCancunHamburg
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 m6 m
Main airportCancún International Airport (CUN)14 km from centre136 non-stop destinationsHamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM)9 km from centre119 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureCancunHamburg
City population888,7971,910,160
People per km²2,530
Museums within 10 km177
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3183
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.