VacationSelector

Cancun or Hong Kong?

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 value for money and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Hong Kong
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife 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.

CancunHong Kong
Beaches & swimming. Cancun leads by 10 points.10
CancunHong Kong
Score9787
Swim season months128
Beaches 10 km2365
Coast distance3 km0 km
Water distance3 km0 km
Places to eat. Hong Kong leads by 34 points.34
CancunHong Kong
Score5488
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6814,325
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1832
Museums & heritage. Hong Kong leads by 16 points.16
CancunHong Kong
Score2036
Museums within 10 km150
Museums within 2 km of centre117
Share of museums within 2 km %10034
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Hong Kong leads by 35 points.35
CancunHong Kong
Score3671
Drinking venues within 4 km2701,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1751,154
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6559
Nightclubs within 4 km3337
Nature & day trips. Hong Kong leads by 10 points.10
CancunHong Kong
Score5464
Protected land share 50 km %98
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4529
Park area within 2 km66 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Hong Kong leads by 26 points.26
CancunHong Kong
Score3258
Tourist attractions within 2 km227
Park area within 2 km66 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km35
Sights concentration. Hong Kong leads by 65 points.65
CancunHong Kong
Score469
Notable places within 2 km5204
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cancun leads by 13 points.13
CancunHong Kong
Score7663
Price level global54.272
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Cancun leads by 7 points.7
CancunHong Kong
Score8174
Monthly daytime high26.2 °C to 30.3 °C19.4 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 224 mm23 mm to 493 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
Hong Kong
19
20
22
26
29
30
31
31
31
28
25
21
Sea temperature, °C
Cancun
27
26
26
27
28
28
29
29
29
29
28
27
Hong Kong
20
20
21
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Rainfall, mm
Cancun
63
50
38
41
92
181
89
114
166
224
124
68
Hong Kong
23
39
70
144
280
493
381
453
331
92
36
31
Daylight, hours per day
Cancun
11
11
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Hong Kong
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Cancun
No sunshine record
Hong Kong
5
3
3
4
5
5
7
6
6
6
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. Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCancunHong Kong
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
2 h 10 m
€110-128
CUN · 14 km
17 h 15 m
no fares
SZX · 54 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 45 m
€321-392
CUN · 14 km
15 h 25 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
4 h 40 m
€319-382
1 stop
CUN · 14 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
5 h 55 m
€287-406
2 stops
CUN · 14 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 25 m
€313-363
1 stop
CUN · 14 km
15 h 25 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 0 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
12 h 0 m
€570-666
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
3 h 35 m
€328-337
CUN · 14 km
15 h 55 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 45 m
€657-706
1 stop
CUN · 14 km
11 h 25 m
€630-670
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 20 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
11 h 55 m
€586-713
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
AmsterdamAMS
10 h 25 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
11 h 35 m
€637
HKG · 25 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

MeasureCancunHong Kong
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaStandard Chinese
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Hong Kong Dollar (HKD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+8
Emergency number911999
Elevation5 m7 m
Main airportCancún International Airport (CUN)14 km from centre136 non-stop destinationsHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre151 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureCancunHong Kong
City population888,7977,413,070
Museums within 10 km139
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3176
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months8 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. 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.