Cancún vs Portugal

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

Resort pool with loungers and umbrellas flanked by white buildings, ocean and coastline visible beyond.

Cancún and Portugal, 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 Portugal
Cancún	Measure	Portugal
Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution	U.S. travel advisory	Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions (better)
30 (better)	Resorts in our catalog	16
★ 4.6 (better)	Average guest rating	★ 4.4
$39–$977/night pp (better)	Nightly rates	$47–$333/night pp
12 of 30	Adults-only resorts	0 of 16
In the hurricane belt	Hurricane exposure	No hurricane season (better)
Generally May–October; winter rain is still possible	Rainy season	November–March
December–April	Sweet spot	June–September (the ocean stays refreshingly cool all year)

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

Portugal

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Cancún and Portugal
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
Portugal · high °F	61	62	65	68	72	79	84	84	80	74	67	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
Portugal · rain (in)	3.1	2.6	1.6	1.5	0.8	0.2	0.1	0.2	1.1	2.6	3.3	3.9

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