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The Taj Mahal reflected in its pool, Agra
AgraThe Taj Mahal reflected in its pool
A cobbled street of painted houses in the old town, San Miguel de Allende
San Miguel de AllendeA cobbled street of painted houses in the old town

Photos: Agra by Sanket Sawale, Pexels License; San Miguel de Allende by Russ Bowling, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Agra or San Miguel de Allende?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Agra for

  • prices
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Agra’s own page.

Choose San Miguel de Allende for

  • wellness
  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on San Miguel de Allende’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Agra 3, San Miguel de Allende 4: San Miguel de Allende leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Agra 42, San Miguel de Allende 62: San Miguel de Allende leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Agra 80, San Miguel de Allende 62: Agra leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Agra 7, San Miguel de Allende 38: San Miguel de Allende leads by 31 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agra 30, San Miguel de Allende 40: San Miguel de Allende leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Agra 70, San Miguel de Allende 77: San Miguel de Allende leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Agra 20, San Miguel de Allende 32: San Miguel de Allende leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Agra 28, San Miguel de Allende 48: San Miguel de Allende leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Agra 38, San Miguel de Allende 55: San Miguel de Allende leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Agra 90, San Miguel de Allende 50: Agra leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agra 10, San Miguel de Allende 40: San Miguel de Allende leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agra 15, San Miguel de Allende 66: San Miguel de Allende leads by 51 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agra and San Miguel de Allende.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Agra
36match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

San Miguel de Allende
Best match
48match

Wins on wellness and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Agra in July

35 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
216 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
14 hdaylight a day

San Miguel de Allende in July

29 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
132 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AgraSan Miguel de Allende

Where the figures come from

Agra has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

San Miguel de Allende's temperatures are measured 54 km from the centre, at Guanajuato, Gto..

San Miguel de Allende has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Agra: 1942-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Agra (6.2 km from centre). San Miguel de Allende: 1991-2020 normals, Guanajuato, Gto. (53.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgraSan Miguel de Allende
Official languageHindi, EnglishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyIndian Rupee (INR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCM230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+5:30UTC-6
Emergency number108 or 112911
Elevation171 m1,900 m
Main airportAgra Airport / Agra Air Force Station (AGR)6 km from centre2 non-stop destinationsGuanajuato International Airport (BJX)77 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-9 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgraSan Miguel de Allende
City population1,585,70569,811
People per km²8,417-
Museums within 10 km02
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.