Cancún is a coastal city in Mexico's easternmost state, Quintana Roo, on
the Yucatán Peninsula. Cancun is located on the Yucatan Channel that
separates Mexico from the island of Cuba in the Greater Antilles. Cancun's
region is sometimes known as the Mexican Caribbean.The city has grown rapidly over the past thirty years to become a city of approximately 600,000 residents, covering the former island and the nearbymainlandThere are about 150 hotels in Cancún with more than 24,000 roomsand 380 restaurants. Four million visitors arrive each year in an average of 190 flights daily. The Hotel Zone of Cancun is shaped like a 7 with bridges on each end connecting to the mainland. Hotels on the vertical or long side of the 7 tend to have rougher beaches and beach erosion can be aproblem. Resorts on the horizontal or short end of the seven tend to havemore gentle surf because the waves here are blocked by the island of IslaMujeres which lies just off shore. The temperature of the city is warm and tropical, moderated by the marine breezes created by onshore trade-winds,
which circulates through its avenues. Depending on the season, maximum
temperatures range from 26 °C (78.8 °F) in January to 32 °C (90 °F) in
June and between 18 °C (64.4 °F) and 25 °C (77 °F) at night. Temperature
extremes have ranged between a maximum of 39.5 °C (103.2 °F) and a minimum
of 9.5 °C (49.2 °F) 5 km (3.1 mi) inland at the Airport at the south end of
the city. More temperate conditions occur from November to February and it
is hottest from April to September, due to proximity to the Caribbean and
Gulf humidity is high all-year around (averages close to 70% on rain free
days).
