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Berlin or Mexico City?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Berlin
62
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

BerlinMexico City
Beaches & swimming. Berlin and Mexico City are level on 0.
BerlinMexico City
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km174
Coast distance142 km247 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Berlin leads by 4 points.4
BerlinMexico City
Score7066
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1172,179
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3315
Museums & heritage. Berlin and Mexico City are level on 79.
BerlinMexico City
Score7979
Museums within 10 km200138
Museums within 2 km of centre8165
Share of museums within 2 km %4147
Unesco sites within 50 km46
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 2 points.2
BerlinMexico City
Score7678
Drinking venues within 4 km2,1142,156
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre719926
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3443
Nightclubs within 4 km135198
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 14 points.14
BerlinMexico City
Score4963
Protected land share 50 km %2030
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km141 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Berlin leads by 26 points.26
BerlinMexico City
Score7650
Tourist attractions within 2 km5423
Park area within 2 km141 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km54
Sights concentration. Berlin leads by 30 points.30
BerlinMexico City
Score8454
Notable places within 2 km48688
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 16 points.16
BerlinMexico City
Score6076
Price level global75.954.2
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 30 points.30
BerlinMexico City
Score6090
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 25 °C22.2 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall29 mm to 76 mm3 mm to 186 mm
Dry months36
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
Berlin
4
6
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Mexico City
22
25
26
28
27
26
25
25
24
23
23
22
Rainfall, mm
Berlin
49
44
39
29
52
53
76
53
47
39
42
45
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Daylight, hours per day
Berlin
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
Berlin
2
2
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
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. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBerlinMexico City
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-126
BER · 19 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€137-154
BER · 19 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€133-143
BER · 19 km
14 h 5 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€102-136
BER · 19 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 19 km
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
€178-321
BER · 19 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€101-133
BER · 19 km
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
€159-242
BER · 19 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 19 km
15 h 20 m
€1,089-1205
3 stops
MEX · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 5 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
2 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

MeasureBerlinMexico City
Official languageGermanSpanish, 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 number112911
Elevation34 m2,240 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinMexico City
City population3,782,2029,209,944
People per km²4,2446,202
Museums within 10 km158108
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km46
Distinct cuisines in the centre8650

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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). 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.