Antigua vs Cancún

Aerial view of Hammock Cove Antigua with pools, beach loungers, wooden pier, and turquoise water with moored floats.

White resort building with palm trees, lounge chairs, and umbrellas line a sandy beach with turquoise water under clear blue sky.

Antigua and Cancún, side by side: live travel advisories, our resort catalog's real guest data, and each destination's honest weather picture. Everything you need to break the tie.

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By the numbers

Antigua compared with Cancún
Antigua	Measure	Cancún
Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions (better)	U.S. travel advisory	Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
8	Resorts in our catalog	28 (better)
★ 4.5	Average guest rating	★ 4.6 (better)
$332–$1179/night pp	Nightly rates	$39–$349/night pp (better)
6 of 8	Adults-only resorts	11 of 28
In the hurricane belt	Hurricane exposure	In the hurricane belt
September–November	Rainy season	June–October, heaviest September–October
December–April	Sweet spot	December–April
East Caribbean dollar – USD widely accepted	Currency	Mexican peso; USD widely accepted in the hotel zones
~4–4.5h from the US East Coast	Flight time	~2–4.5h from most US hubs

Advisory levels sync from travel.state.gov; catalog figures reflect the resorts we've researched, not every hotel in the country. A marked row is one we are willing to call; rows without a mark are a matter of taste, or we have no comparable figure for both sides.

On the map

Antigua

Cancún

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Antigua and Cancún
Measure	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Antigua · high °F	82	82	83	84	86	87	87	88	88	87	85	83
Cancún · high °F	82	83	85	87	89	90	90	91	89	87	84	82
Antigua · rain (in)	2.6	1.7	1.7	2.4	3.6	2.5	3.0	3.9	4.9	5.5	5.5	3.5
Cancún · rain (in)	3.5	2.0	1.5	1.5	4.0	6.5	4.0	4.5	8.5	8.5	4.0	3.5

Approximate climate normals for Island-wide and Cancún hotel zone: planning guidance, not a forecast. A deeper tint is a higher number, read within its own row.