VacationSelector

Beijing or Mexico City?

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

Your match

Beijing
53
match

Wins on good for families and value for money with your weighting.

Mexico City
✓ Best match
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.

BeijingMexico City
Beaches & swimming. Beijing and Mexico City are level on 0.
BeijingMexico City
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km04
Coast distance145 km247 km
Water distance
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 16 points.16
BeijingMexico City
Score6379
Museums within 10 km95138
Museums within 2 km of centre1565
Share of museums within 2 km %1647
Unesco sites within 50 km66
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 28 points.28
BeijingMexico City
Score3563
Protected land share 50 km %330
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km143 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Beijing leads by 27 points.27
BeijingMexico City
Score7750
Tourist attractions within 2 km4123
Park area within 2 km143 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km124
Sights concentration. Mexico City leads by 4 points.4
BeijingMexico City
Score5054
Notable places within 2 km6988
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Beijing leads by 3 points.3
BeijingMexico City
Score7976
Price level global4954.2
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 24 points.24
BeijingMexico City
Score6690
Monthly daytime high2.2 °C to 31.8 °C22.2 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 163 mm3 mm to 186 mm
Dry months86
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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A
M
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J
A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Beijing
2
6
13
21
27
31
32
31
27
19
10
4
Mexico City
22
25
26
28
27
26
25
25
24
23
23
22
Rainfall, mm
Beijing
3
6
9
23
38
74
163
112
56
27
14
3
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Daylight, hours per day
Beijing
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Beijing
6
6
7
8
9
7
6
7
7
7
6
6
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. Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre). Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBeijingMexico City
SeoulICN, GMP
1 h 45 m
€180-197
PKX · 45 km
14 h 55 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
TijuanaTIJ
12 h 45 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
12 h 30 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
3 h 35 m
€248-282
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
13 h 5 m
€1,020-1172
2 stops
PEK · 25 km
4 h 30 m
€367-420
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
TokyoHND, NRT
3 h 10 m
€312-367
PEK · 25 km
14 h 0 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
10 h 40 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
5 h 20 m
€321-367
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 0 m
€475-645
PEK · 25 km
14 h 5 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 0 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
21 h 20 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
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

MeasureBeijingMexico City
Official languagePutonghuaSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-6
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119911
Elevation43 m2,240 m
Main airportBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeijingMexico City
City population21,893,0959,209,944
People per km²1,3346,202
Museums within 10 km83108
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km66
Distinct cuisines in the centre2950

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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.