Corfu vs Riviera Maya

Aerial view of Ikos Dassia beach club with curved blue pool, white cabanas, sandy beach, and turquoise sea.

Aerial view of Barceló Maya Palace resort showing blue pool complex, palm-lined grounds, beachfront buildings, and Caribbean Sea.

Corfu and Riviera Maya, 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

Corfu compared with Riviera Maya
Corfu	Measure	Riviera Maya
Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions (better)	U.S. travel advisory	Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
4	Resorts in our catalog	39 (better)
★ 4.5	Average guest rating	★ 4.6 (better)
$205–$583/night pp	Nightly rates	$41–$635/night pp (better)
0 of 4	Adults-only resorts	12 of 39
No hurricane season (better)	Hurricane exposure	In the hurricane belt
October–March	Rainy season	June–October, heaviest September–October
June and September; July–August is hottest and busiest	Sweet spot	December–April
Corfu (CFU), beside the town; the east-coast resorts are 20–40 min away	Airport	Cancún (CUN); transfers run 25–90 min depending how far south
Luxury all-inclusives, scenery, an old town worth an evening, calm water	Best for	Cenotes + ruins + beach in one trip; low-rise seclusion

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

Corfu

Riviera Maya

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Corfu and Riviera Maya
Measure	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Corfu · high °F	57	58	61	67	75	83	88	88	82	74	65	59
Riviera Maya · high °F	82	83	85	87	89	90	90	91	89	87	84	82
Corfu · rain (in)	5.5	4.6	3.5	2.4	1.4	0.6	0.3	0.7	2.7	5.3	7.4	7.0
Riviera Maya · 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

Approximate climate normals for Corfu (east coast) and Playa del Carmen–Tulum: planning guidance, not a forecast. A deeper tint is a higher number, read within its own row.