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Puente de San Martín over the Tagus, Toledo
ToledoPuente de San Martín over the Tagus
El Castillo above the beach at Tulum, Tulum
TulumEl Castillo above the beach at Tulum

Photos: Toledo by Ввласенко, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Tulum by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Toledo or Tulum?

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 Toledo for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • prices

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

Choose Tulum for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Tulum’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. Toledo 5, Tulum 88: Tulum leads by 83 points.
Food & drink. Toledo 40, Tulum 52: Tulum leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Toledo 79, Tulum 30: Toledo leads by 49 points.
Nightlife. Toledo 22, Tulum 60: Tulum leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Toledo 40, Tulum 76: Tulum leads by 36 points.
Day trips. Toledo 78, Tulum 68: Toledo leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Toledo 45, Tulum 60: Tulum leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Toledo 64, Tulum 25: Toledo leads by 39 points.
Shopping & style. Toledo 32, Tulum 35: Tulum leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Toledo 58, Tulum 30: Toledo leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Toledo 22, Tulum 15: Toledo leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Toledo 30, Tulum 85: Tulum leads by 55 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Toledo and Tulum.

Your match

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

Toledo
43match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

Tulum
Best match
52match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Toledo in July

35 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
6 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Tulum in July

30 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
116 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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Where the figures come from

Tulum 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. Toledo: 1991-2020 normals, Toledo (2.3 km from centre). Tulum: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureToledoTulum
Official languageSpanishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number112911
Elevation523 m5 m
Main airportAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)80 km from centre239 non-stop destinationsFelipe Carrillo Puerto International Airport Tulum (TQO)21 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureToledoTulum
City population87,21633,374
People per km²376-
Museums within 10 km130
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

Where else could you go?

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.