No, Acapulco is not safe to visit at the moment. The city faces a significant issue with a high crime rate, particularly targeting foreigners, leading to various crimes such as armed robbery, kidnapping, homicide, and drug trafficking.

One of the main reasons for Acapulco’s reputation as a dangerous city is that the city is dominated by cartels and the illegal activity typically associated with them. Due to the city’s location along major Mexican trafficking routes violent crime and territory disputes between rival cartels occur often.

Mexico’s crime rates have dramatically increased over the past few decades, and unfortunately, things are no different in Acapulco. The US government currently advises against traveling to Acapulco, stating ‘crime and kidnapping’ as reasons to avoid Guerrero state, where the city is located.

The city has gotten some negative news coverage over the past decade as crime rates skyrocketed and it became one of the most dangerous places in Mexico. Stories of kidnappings, sexual assaults, murders, and robberies emerged left and right, and many of those stories are indisputably true.