Cancún vs Turks & Caicos

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

White modern villa with turquoise pool overlooking ocean beach at Ambergris Cay, with lounge chairs and covered patio seating.

Cancún and Turks & Caicos, 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 · Turks & Caicos guide · How we score

By the numbers

Cancún compared with Turks & Caicos
Cancún	Measure	Turks & Caicos
Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution	U.S. travel advisory	Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
28 (better)	Resorts in our catalog	5
★ 4.6 (better)	Average guest rating	★ 4.4
$39–$349/night pp (better)	Nightly rates	$333–$1227/night pp
11 of 28	Adults-only resorts	1 of 5
In the hurricane belt	Hurricane exposure	In the hurricane belt
June–October, heaviest September–October	Rainy season	September–December, and even then it's one of the drier corners of the Caribbean
December–April	Sweet spot	December–April, with May–June a good-value shoulder
~2–4.5h from most US hubs	Flight time	~1.5–3.5h from the US East Coast
Mexican peso; USD widely accepted in the hotel zones	Currency	U.S. dollar (official)

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

Turks & Caicos

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Cancún and Turks & Caicos
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
Turks & Caicos · high °F	81	81	83	84	87	89	90	90	89	87	84	82
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
Turks & Caicos · rain (in)	1.9	1.4	1.0	1.5	2.5	2.0	2.0	2.5	3.5	3.5	3.0	2.5

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