VacationSelector

Athens or Mexico City?

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

Your match

Athens
✓ Best match
68
match

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

Mexico City
62
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather 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.

AthensMexico City
Beaches & swimming. Athens leads by 48 points.48
AthensMexico City
Score480
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km144
Coast distance6 km247 km
Water distance6 km
Places to eat. Athens leads by 3 points.3
AthensMexico City
Score6966
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,4312,179
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2515
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 6 points.6
AthensMexico City
Score7379
Museums within 10 km122138
Museums within 2 km of centre7865
Share of museums within 2 km %6447
Unesco sites within 50 km26
Nightlife. Athens leads by 3 points.3
AthensMexico City
Score8178
Drinking venues within 4 km2,7182,156
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,354926
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5043
Nightclubs within 4 km136198
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 18 points.18
AthensMexico City
Score4563
Protected land share 50 km %530
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %50100
Park area within 2 km128 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Athens leads by 21 points.21
AthensMexico City
Score7150
Tourist attractions within 2 km6823
Park area within 2 km128 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Athens leads by 21 points.21
AthensMexico City
Score7554
Notable places within 2 km29188
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 2 points.2
AthensMexico City
Score7476
Price level global55.854.2
Daily budget€125
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 16 points.16
AthensMexico City
Score7490
Monthly daytime high13.4 °C to 34.5 °C22.2 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall6 mm to 86 mm3 mm to 186 mm
Dry months76
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
Athens
13
14
17
21
27
32
34
35
30
24
19
15
Mexico City
22
25
26
28
27
26
25
25
24
23
23
22
Sea temperature, °C
Athens
15
15
15
16
19
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Mexico City
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Athens
59
46
41
31
19
7
7
6
24
39
74
86
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Daylight, hours per day
Athens
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Athens
5
5
7
8
10
12
13
12
9
7
5
4
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. Athens: 1991-2020 normals, Athens / Athenai / Pláka (2.2 km from centre). Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAthensMexico City
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 30 m
€115-327
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 0 m
€565-638
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 20 m
€95-237
ATH · 20 km
14 h 5 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€162-235
ATH · 20 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
€97-139
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
12 h 40 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
11 h 0 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
3 h 50 m
€259-271
MEX · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 55 m
€134-222
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
MunichMUC
2 h 25 m
€214-254
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 30 m
€286-308
ATH · 20 km
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 35 m
no fares
ATH · 20 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

MeasureAthensMexico City
Official languageGreekSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation74 m2,240 m
Main airportAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (ATH)20 km from centre171 non-stop destinationsMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureAthensMexico City
City population643,4529,209,944
People per km²16,4996,202
Museums within 10 km88108
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km26
Distinct cuisines in the centre8250
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months

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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.