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El Castillo above the beach at Tulum, Tulum
TulumEl Castillo above the beach at Tulum
The Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal, Venice
VeniceThe Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal

Photos: Tulum by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Venice by David Vives, Pexels License.

Tulum or Venice?

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 Tulum for

  • wellness
  • nightlife
  • beaches

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

Choose Venice for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Venice’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. Tulum 88, Venice 56: Tulum leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Tulum 52, Venice 60: Venice leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Tulum 30, Venice 94: Venice leads by 64 points.
Nightlife. Tulum 60, Venice 27: Tulum leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Tulum 76, Venice 45: Tulum leads by 31 points.
Day trips. Tulum 68, Venice 86: Venice leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Tulum 60, Venice 45: Tulum leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Tulum 25, Venice 68: Venice leads by 43 points.
Shopping & style. Tulum 35, Venice 57: Venice leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Tulum 30, Venice 20: Tulum leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Tulum 15, Venice 62: Venice leads by 47 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Tulum 85, Venice 40: Tulum leads by 45 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Tulum and Venice.

Your match

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

Tulum
52match

Wins on wellness and nightlife with your weighting.

Venice
Best match
55match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Venice in July

29 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
61 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 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.

Venice has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Venice's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Treviso / S. Angelo.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Tulum: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Venezia / Tessera (6.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureTulumVenice
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaItalian
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation5 m2 m
Main airportFelipe Carrillo Puerto International Airport Tulum (TQO)21 km from centre11 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureTulumVenice
City population33,374250,369
People per km²-602
Museums within 10 km052
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 months

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Sources

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. 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. 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.

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.