VacationSelector

Cancun or Porto?

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 nature & day trips with your weighting.

Porto
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

CancunPorto
Beaches & swimming. Cancun leads by 37 points.37
CancunPorto
Score9760
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km2352
Coast distance3 km4 km
Water distance3 km3 km
Places to eat. Porto leads by 14 points.14
CancunPorto
Score5468
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6811,172
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1827
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 51 points.51
CancunPorto
Score2071
Museums within 10 km1101
Museums within 2 km of centre157
Share of museums within 2 km %10056
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Porto leads by 22 points.22
CancunPorto
Score3658
Drinking venues within 4 km270900
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre175570
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6563
Nightclubs within 4 km3338
Nature & day trips. Cancun leads by 21 points.21
CancunPorto
Score5433
Protected land share 50 km %97
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4561
Park area within 2 km66 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Porto leads by 33 points.33
CancunPorto
Score3265
Tourist attractions within 2 km2122
Park area within 2 km66 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Porto leads by 50 points.50
CancunPorto
Score454
Notable places within 2 km585
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cancun leads by 2 points.2
CancunPorto
Score7674
Price level global54.255.9
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Cancun leads by 10 points.10
CancunPorto
Score8171
Monthly daytime high26.2 °C to 30.3 °C13.8 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 224 mm22 mm to 181 mm
Dry months13
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
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Cancun
27
26
26
27
28
28
29
29
29
29
28
27
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Cancun
63
50
38
41
92
181
89
114
166
224
124
68
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Daylight, hours per day
Cancun
11
11
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Cancun
No sunshine record
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
5
4

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. Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCancunPorto
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 20 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
MadridMAD
10 h 0 m
€721-977
CUN · 14 km
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 0 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
LisbonLIS
9 h 30 m
€740-984
1 stop
CUN · 14 km
1 h 0 m
€81
OPO · 12 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 45 m
€321-392
CUN · 14 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
10 h 35 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
1 h 45 m
€81-135
OPO · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
10 h 25 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
2 h 35 m
€158-202
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
3 h 35 m
€328-337
CUN · 14 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 45 m
€657-706
1 stop
CUN · 14 km
2 h 35 m
€112-173
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
ZurichZRH
10 h 55 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
2 h 30 m
€195-198
OPO · 12 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

MeasureCancunPorto
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaPortuguese
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation5 m104 m
Main airportCancún International Airport (CUN)14 km from centre136 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureCancunPorto
City population888,797231,800
People per km²5,599
Museums within 10 km142
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre3170
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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.