Cancún vs Greece

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

Curved turquoise pool with metal railing overlooking white resort buildings, beach loungers, and Mediterranean Sea under clear blue sky.

Cancún and Greece, 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 · Greece guide · How we score

By the numbers

Cancún compared with Greece
Cancún	Measure	Greece
Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution	U.S. travel advisory	Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions (better)
28	Resorts in our catalog	33 (better)
★ 4.6	Average guest rating	★ 4.6 (better)
$39–$349/night pp (better)	Nightly rates	$64–$2113/night pp
11 of 28	Adults-only resorts	7 of 33
In the hurricane belt	Hurricane exposure	No hurricane season (better)
June–October, heaviest September–October	Rainy season	November–February
December–April	Sweet spot	Late May–June and September–early October (July–August is hottest and busiest)
~2–4.5h from most US hubs	Flight time	~9–11h from the US, often via a hub
Mexican peso; USD widely accepted in the hotel zones	Currency	Euro

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

Greece

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Cancún and Greece
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
Greece · high °F	60	61	64	69	76	83	85	85	81	74	68	62
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
Greece · rain (in)	3.5	3.0	2.2	1.0	0.6	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.8	2.7	2.3	3.0

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