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Can you afford it?

Tell us what lands in your account each month. We will set it against the four costs our city guides can actually source, rent, a desk, weekday lunches and getting around, and show you what is left for everything else.

Playa del Carmen, a month

£490 to £973 for the basics.

Add your take-home pay above to see what is left.

Not every cost has a checked figure for Playa del Carmen, so the real total is higher than this. The missing ones are marked below.

RentFurnished one-bed: the cheapest Centro listings on a portal, October 2026, up to the bottom of a blog's Centro range. The two sources disagree, Colosio and Ejido can be less, and Centro often more. MXN 8,000 to 18,000
£326 to £733
A deskCoworking, a month: WorkZone from 2,500 up to Nest at 3,700, from a travel blog. Bunker runs up to 6,900. MXN 2,500 to 3,700
£102 to £151
Weekday lunchesComida corrida, MXN 70 to 100 each, 22 working days
£63 to £90
Getting aroundNo checked city bus fare or pass. Centro is walkable, and a taxi in town is MXN 60 to 120 a ride, from a blog
Not included

Mexico's Residente Temporal, economic solvency asks for about £3,040 to £3,480 a month in income. Check your own case

The Playa del Carmen guideCompare every city

What is counted. Four costs, and only four, because they are the ones every guide can source: rent, a desk, a lunch on each of 22 working days, and getting around. Food shopping, bills, a phone, insurance, tax and evenings out are not in it, which is why the answer is what is left for everything else, not what is left to save.

Where the figures come from. Each city's guide, checked against official statistics, the operators' own price pages and dated listings. Each line says what it is. Where a guide only publishes rent per square metre, the line says what size flat it assumes. Last copied from the guides on 3 October 2026.

The exchange rates. The same daily feed as the visa checker, from ExchangeRate-API, last updated 20 October 2026. Pesos are converted at the official rate.