Cancún vs Rhodes

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 Rhodes, 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 Rhodes
Cancún	Measure	Rhodes
Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution	U.S. travel advisory	Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions (better)
27 (better)	Resorts in our catalog	9
★ 4.6	Average guest rating	★ 4.6 (better)
$39–$506/night pp (better)	Nightly rates	$79–$328/night pp
10 of 27	Adults-only resorts	2 of 9
In the hurricane belt	Hurricane exposure	No hurricane season (better)
June–October, heaviest September–October	Rainy season	November–February
December–April	Sweet spot	June and September; July–August is hottest, busiest and windiest
Cancún (CUN); Hotel Zone 20–30 min, Costa Mujeres ~40 min	Airport	Rhodes Diagoras (RHO), most resorts 20–60 min down the east coast
First trips, nightlife + beach combos, nonstop-flight convenience	Best for	Value big-resort beaches, a medieval city, reliable sun

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

Rhodes

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Cancún and Rhodes
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
Rhodes · high °F	59	60	63	69	76	83	87	88	83	76	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
Rhodes · rain (in)	5.9	4.3	3.0	1.0	0.5	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.3	2.7	3.9	6.1

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