Belek vs Malé Atolls

Rectangular pool with blue tile in manicured lawn facing modern beige villa with lounge chairs, umbrellas, and woven hanging chair at Gloria Serenity Resort.

Overwater villa at Anantara Veli Maldives with private pool, wooden deck, lounge chairs, and ocean view under clear sky.

Belek and Malé Atolls, 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.

By the numbers

Belek compared with Malé Atolls
Belek	Measure	Malé Atolls
Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution	U.S. travel advisory	Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
8	Resorts in our catalog	12 (better)
★ 4.7	Average guest rating	★ 4.7 (better)
$1–$734/night pp (better)	Nightly rates	$127–$856/night pp
0 of 8	Adults-only resorts	2 of 12
No hurricane season	Hurricane exposure	No hurricane season
November–February	Rainy season	May–November (southwest monsoon), wettest September–November
May–June and September–October; July–August regularly tops 90°F	Sweet spot	January–March
Big-resort value, golf, families who want everything on site	Best for	First Maldives trips, shorter stays, red-eye arrivals
April–October; May–June and September–October are the sweet spots	Season	January–March driest; May–November is the wetter monsoon

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

Belek

Malé Atolls

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Belek and Malé Atolls
Measure	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Belek · high °F	59	60	64	70	78	86	93	93	88	80	70	62
Malé Atolls · high °F	86	87	88	88	87	86	86	86	86	86	86	86
Belek · rain (in)	8.6	5.7	3.5	1.6	1.1	0.3	0.1	0.1	0.5	3.3	6.3	10.4
Malé Atolls · rain (in)	4.5	2.0	2.9	5.2	8.5	6.5	5.8	6.9	9.6	8.7	9.1	9.0