Isla Holbox

No cars allowed. A golf cart from the ferry, and sunset over the Gulf.

How we rated it: up one for third place on the fame list. No hazard on record. Photo: dronepicr · CC BY 2.0

The hang

Holbox is an island, and cars are not allowed on it. The last leg is always the ferry from Chiquilá, about 30 minutes across; in high season ferries leave about every half hour from 6am to 9:30pm. From the dock, a golf-cart taxi to a beachfront hotel cost one traveller 100 pesos in 2023. The beach has plenty of restaurants and bars for watching the sunset over the Gulf of Mexico. The beach polygon we measured, mapped as Punta Cocos and Bonita Playa, is 5.8 km long. On the walk out to Mosquito Point, get back to firm ground before high tide covers the sandbar.

The real intel

Status, dated 2025-12-04: High-season ferries from Chiquilá about every 30 minutes, 6:00am to 9:30pm.

Best months · warmest sea: September (29.3 °C), then October and August. Coolest: January (24.8 °C). One year of data, 2025.
Best months · emptiest: No crowd data.
Getting there: Ferry from Chiquilá, about 30 minutes; in high season every half hour from 6am to 9:30pm.
Cost reality: A golf-cart taxi from the ferry to a beachfront hotel: 100 pesos, in 2023.
The catch nobody tells you: On the Mosquito Point sandbar, get back before high tide covers it.

The year at Isla Holbox

Warmest sea in September. Fewest wet days in April. Pick your fight.

Sea (°C)

24.8

25.5

25.8

25.4

25.9

25.8

26.8

28.1

29.3

27.2

26.4

Air (°C)

24.2

25.4

25.7

27.6

27.7

27.9

28.4

27.5

25.8

25.5

Sun (h/day)

9.1

10.4

11.6

12.5

11.9

11.7

10.3

10.2

10.3

Rain (days)

One year of data, 2025, from Open-Meteo at this beach's coordinates. A rain day is 1 mm or more. The red bar is the month to aim for in each row.

The crowd

No crowd data.

The facts · we measured

Length: 5,841 m
Mean width: 36.5 m
Area: 213,142 m²
Warmest sea (2025): 29.3 °C in Sep
Coldest sea (2025): 24.8 °C in Jan
Sea by month, °C: Jan 24.8 · Feb 25.5 · Mar 25.8 · Apr 25.4 · May 25.9 · Jun 25.8 · Jul 26.8 · Aug 28.1 · Sep 29.3 · Oct 29.0 · Nov 27.2 · Dec 26.4