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El Castillo above the beach at Tulum, Tulum
TulumEl Castillo above the beach at Tulum
Castle Square and the Royal Castle, Warsaw
WarsawCastle Square and the Royal Castle

Photos: Tulum by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Warsaw by Raymond Petrik, Pexels License.

Tulum or Warsaw?

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

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Warsaw for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Warsaw’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, Warsaw 12: Tulum leads by 76 points.
Food & drink. Tulum 52, Warsaw 60: Warsaw leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Tulum 30, Warsaw 70: Warsaw leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Tulum 60, Warsaw 66: Warsaw leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Tulum 76, Warsaw 47: Tulum leads by 29 points.
Day trips. Tulum 68, Warsaw 52: Tulum leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Tulum 60, Warsaw 62: Warsaw leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Tulum 25, Warsaw 72: Warsaw leads by 47 points.
Shopping & style. Tulum 35, Warsaw 55: Warsaw leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Tulum 30, Warsaw 64: Warsaw leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Tulum 15, Warsaw 63: Warsaw leads by 48 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Tulum 85, Warsaw 35: Tulum leads by 50 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Tulum and Warsaw.

Your match

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

Tulum
52match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Warsaw
Best match
55match

Wins on live music and the arts and getting around 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

Warsaw in July

25 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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TulumWarsaw

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. Tulum: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureTulumWarsaw
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaPolish
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation5 m118 m
Main airportFelipe Carrillo Puerto International Airport Tulum (TQO)21 km from centre11 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureTulumWarsaw
City population33,3741,862,402
People per km²-3,601
Museums within 10 km0117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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.