VacationSelector

Cancun or Vienna?

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.

Vienna
✓ Best match
59
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.

CancunVienna
Beaches & swimming. Cancun leads by 97 points.97
CancunVienna
Score970
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km2322
Coast distance3 km10,000 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Vienna leads by 23 points.23
CancunVienna
Score5477
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6811,617
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1837
Museums & heritage. Vienna leads by 61 points.61
CancunVienna
Score2081
Museums within 10 km1192
Museums within 2 km of centre1110
Share of museums within 2 km %10057
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Vienna leads by 38 points.38
CancunVienna
Score3674
Drinking venues within 4 km2701,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1751,089
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6556
Nightclubs within 4 km33108
Nature & day trips. Cancun leads by 22 points.22
CancunVienna
Score5432
Protected land share 50 km %94
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %45100
Park area within 2 km66 hectares93 hectares
Good for families. Vienna leads by 37 points.37
CancunVienna
Score3269
Tourist attractions within 2 km246
Park area within 2 km66 hectares93 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km34
Sights concentration. Vienna leads by 71 points.71
CancunVienna
Score475
Notable places within 2 km5287
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cancun leads by 17 points.17
CancunVienna
Score7659
Price level global54.276.9
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Cancun leads by 20 points.20
CancunVienna
Score8161
Monthly daytime high26.2 °C to 30.3 °C3.3 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 224 mm38 mm to 80 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
Vienna
3
6
11
17
21
25
27
27
21
15
9
4
Sea temperature, °C
Cancun
27
26
26
27
28
28
29
29
29
29
28
27
Vienna
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cancun
63
50
38
41
92
181
89
114
166
224
124
68
Vienna
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Daylight, hours per day
Cancun
11
11
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Vienna
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Cancun
No sunshine record
Vienna
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
6
4
2
2

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. Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCancunVienna
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 0 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
2 h 10 m
€105-189
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 45 m
€657-706
1 stop
CUN · 14 km
1 h 25 m
€143-152
VIE · 18 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 45 m
€321-392
CUN · 14 km
8 h 50 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 20 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
10 h 25 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
1 h 50 m
€180-245
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
12 h 55 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
2 h 5 m
€121-285
VIE · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
3 h 35 m
€328-337
CUN · 14 km
8 h 40 m
€736-786
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
MadridMAD
10 h 0 m
€721-977
CUN · 14 km
2 h 45 m
€152-183
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 25 m
€313-363
1 stop
CUN · 14 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
ZurichZRH
10 h 55 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
1 h 25 m
€170-237
1 stop
VIE · 18 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

MeasureCancunVienna
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaGerman, Austrian Sign Language
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 m151 m
Main airportCancún International Airport (CUN)14 km from centre136 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureCancunVienna
City population888,7972,028,289
People per km²4,890
Museums within 10 km1152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre31113
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.