Cancún vs Fiji

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

Wooden bungalow with thatched-roof structures nestled in tropical vegetation overlooking calm blue ocean waters.

Cancún and Fiji, 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 · Fiji guide · How we score

By the numbers

Cancún compared with Fiji
Cancún	Measure	Fiji
Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution	U.S. travel advisory	–
28 (better)	Resorts in our catalog	13
★ 4.6 (better)	Average guest rating	★ 4.6
$39–$349/night pp (better)	Nightly rates	$109–$1327/night pp
11 of 28	Adults-only resorts	6 of 13
In the hurricane belt	Hurricane exposure	In the hurricane belt
June–October, heaviest September–October	Rainy season	November–April, wettest January–March
December–April	Sweet spot	May–October: dry, mid-80s, and aligned with northern-summer holidays
Cancún (CUN); Hotel Zone 20–30 min, Costa Mujeres ~40 min	Airport	Nadi (NAN): Denarau 20 min; island resorts by boat or small plane
~2–4.5h from most US hubs	Flight time	~11h nonstop from Los Angeles
Mexican peso; USD widely accepted in the hotel zones	Currency	Fijian dollar

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

Fiji

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Cancún and Fiji
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
Fiji · high °F	88	88	87	85	83	81	80	80	82	84	86	87
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
Fiji · rain (in)	11.9	11.3	12.9	7.1	3.9	2.4	1.9	2.4	3.2	4.2	5.5	7.5

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