Cancún vs Egypt

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

White resort buildings overlook multiple blue pools with palm trees and loungers at Steigenberger Resort Alaya Marsa Alam, with the Red Sea beyond.

Cancún and Egypt, 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.

Cancún guide · Egypt guide · How we score

By the numbers

Cancún compared with Egypt
Cancún	Measure	Egypt
Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution	U.S. travel advisory	Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
28 (better)	Resorts in our catalog	20
★ 4.6	Average guest rating	★ 4.7 (better)
$39–$349/night pp (better)	Nightly rates	$62–$303/night pp
11 of 28	Adults-only resorts	4 of 20
In the hurricane belt	Hurricane exposure	No hurricane season (better)
June–October, heaviest September–October	Rainy season	None to speak of
December–April	Sweet spot	October–May; high summer is very hot (but dry, and the sea is warm)
~2–4.5h from most US hubs	Flight time	~11–13h from the US East Coast (via Europe or the Gulf)
Mexican peso; USD widely accepted in the hotel zones	Currency	Egyptian pound (EGP) – USD and euro often accepted

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

Cancún

Egypt

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Cancún and Egypt
Measure	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Cancún · high °F	82	83	85	87	89	90	90	91	89	87	84	82
Egypt · high °F	71	73	78	85	91	95	97	97	93	87	80	74
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
Egypt · rain (in)	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1

Approximate climate normals for Cancún hotel zone and Red Sea coast (Hurghada): planning guidance, not a forecast. A deeper tint is a higher number, read within its own row.