VacationSelector

Amsterdam or Mexico City?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Amsterdam
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families with your weighting.

Mexico City
62
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AmsterdamMexico City
Beaches & swimming. Amsterdam leads by 40 points.40
AmsterdamMexico City
Score400
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km334
Coast distance24 km247 km
Water distance24 km—
Places to eat. Amsterdam leads by 17 points.17
AmsterdamMexico City
Score8366
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,9572,179
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4415
Museums & heritage. Amsterdam leads by 1 points.1
AmsterdamMexico City
Score8079
Museums within 10 km98138
Museums within 2 km of centre6965
Share of museums within 2 km %7047
Unesco sites within 50 km56
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 8 points.8
AmsterdamMexico City
Score7078
Drinking venues within 4 km1,5432,156
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,078926
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7043
Nightclubs within 4 km114198
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 3 points.3
AmsterdamMexico City
Score6063
Protected land share 50 km %2130
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %82100
Park area within 2 km49 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Amsterdam leads by 18 points.18
AmsterdamMexico City
Score6850
Tourist attractions within 2 km7423
Park area within 2 km49 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km34
Sights concentration. Amsterdam leads by 14 points.14
AmsterdamMexico City
Score6854
Notable places within 2 km19688
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 18 points.18
AmsterdamMexico City
Score5876
Price level global79.254.2
Daily budget€181—
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 33 points.33
AmsterdamMexico City
Score5790
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.1 °C22.2 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm3 mm to 186 mm
Dry months06
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Amsterdam
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Mexico City
22
25
26
28
27
26
25
25
24
23
23
22
Sea temperature, °C
Amsterdam
6
5
6
8
12
15
17
19
17
15
11
8
Mexico City
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Amsterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Daylight, hours per day
Amsterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Amsterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Mexico City
8
8
9
8
8
6
6
6
5
6
7
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amsterdam: 1991-2020 normals, De Bilt (35.3 km from centre). Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAmsterdamMexico City
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€93-112
AMS · 12 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 10 m
€130-171
AMS · 12 km
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 15 m
€166-175
AMS · 12 km
14 h 5 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
CancunCUN
10 h 25 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
2 h 10 m
€123-162
MEX · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 12 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 45 m
€458-478
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
4 h 30 m
€367-420
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 12 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 55 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
15 h 20 m
€1,089-1205
3 stops
MEX · 7 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureAmsterdamMexico City
Official languageDutchSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112 or 911911
Elevation-2 m2,240 m
Main airportAmsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)12 km from centre287 non-stop destinationsMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmsterdamMexico City
City population921,4689,209,944
People per km²4,2086,202
Museums within 10 km101108
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km56
Distinct cuisines in the centre9850
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone–

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.