Cancún vs Italy

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

Modern wooden suite with horizontal slat cladding perched on rocky hillside overlooking sea, surrounded by Mediterranean vegetation and blue flowers.

Cancún and Italy, 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

Cancún compared with Italy
Cancún	Measure	Italy
Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution	U.S. travel advisory	Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
30 (better)	Resorts in our catalog	13
★ 4.6 (better)	Average guest rating	★ 4.4
$39–$977/night pp (better)	Nightly rates	$79–$518/night pp
12 of 30	Adults-only resorts	0 of 13
In the hurricane belt	Hurricane exposure	No hurricane season (better)
Generally May–October; winter rain is still possible	Rainy season	October–December
December–April	Sweet spot	June and September; July–August is hot, busy, and priced accordingly

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

Italy

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Cancún and Italy
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
Italy · high °F	59	60	63	68	75	83	88	88	82	74	66	60
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
Italy · rain (in)	2.8	2.4	1.9	1.7	0.9	0.4	0.2	0.5	1.6	3.9	3.7	3.3

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