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Hobart below kunanyi/Mount Wellington, Hobart
HobartHobart below kunanyi/Mount Wellington
The town beach and the Portal Maya sculpture, Playa del Carmen
Playa del CarmenThe town beach and the Portal Maya sculpture

Photos: Hobart by Gary Houston, CC0; Playa del Carmen by lazyweaver, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Hobart or Playa del Carmen?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Hobart for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Hobart’s own page.

Choose Playa del Carmen for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Playa del Carmen’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Hobart 30, Playa del Carmen 88: Playa del Carmen leads by 58 points.
Food & drink. Hobart 60, Playa del Carmen 52: Hobart leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Hobart 56, Playa del Carmen 12: Hobart leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Hobart 30, Playa del Carmen 66: Playa del Carmen leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hobart 85, Playa del Carmen 74: Hobart leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Hobart 60, Playa del Carmen 72: Playa del Carmen leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Hobart 56, Playa del Carmen 78: Playa del Carmen leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Hobart 45, Playa del Carmen 55: Playa del Carmen leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Hobart and Playa del Carmen are level on 38.
Affordability. Hobart 35, Playa del Carmen 52: Playa del Carmen leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hobart 45, Playa del Carmen 22: Hobart leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hobart 40, Playa del Carmen 54: Playa del Carmen leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hobart and Playa del Carmen.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Hobart
48match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Playa del Carmen
Best match
55match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Hobart in July

13 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
42 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
13 °Csea
9 hdaylight a day

Playa del Carmen in July

29 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
96 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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HobartPlaya del Carmen

Where the figures come from

Playa del Carmen has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Hobart: 1991-2020 normals, Hobart (2.3 km from centre). Playa del Carmen: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureHobartPlaya del Carmen
Official languageEnglishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number000911
Elevation54 m8 m
Main airportHobart International Airport (HBA)17 km from centre9 non-stop destinationsCancún International Airport (CUN)50 km from centre137 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureHobartPlaya del Carmen
City population197,451304,942
People per km²116-
Museums within 10 km80
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.