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San Petronio on Piazza Maggiore, Bologna
BolognaSan Petronio on Piazza Maggiore
The Metropolitan Cathedral on the Zócalo, Mexico City
Mexico CityThe Metropolitan Cathedral on the Zócalo

Photos: Bologna by Vanni Lazzari, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Mexico City by Oscar Dominguez, Pexels License.

Bologna or Mexico City?

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 Bologna for

  • getting around
  • beaches
  • day trips

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

Choose Mexico City for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Mexico City’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. Bologna 30, Mexico City 5: Bologna leads by 25 points.
Food & drink. Bologna 82, Mexico City 90: Mexico City leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Bologna 77, Mexico City 88: Mexico City leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Bologna 58, Mexico City 80: Mexico City leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bologna 52, Mexico City 50: Bologna leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Bologna 95, Mexico City 75: Bologna leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Bologna 50, Mexico City 58: Mexico City leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Bologna 76, Mexico City 50: Bologna leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Bologna 55, Mexico City 76: Mexico City leads by 21 points.
Affordability. Bologna 48, Mexico City 75: Mexico City leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bologna 60, Mexico City 72: Mexico City leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bologna and Mexico City are level on 40.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bologna and Mexico City.

Your match

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

Bologna
60match

Wins on getting around and beaches with your weighting.

Mexico City
Best match
63match

Wins on prices 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.

Bologna in July

32 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Mexico City in July

25 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
176 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Bologna 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.

Bologna's sunshine is measured 82 km from the centre, at Cervia.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 km from centre). Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBolognaMexico City
Official languageItalianSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation54 m2,240 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaMexico City
City population387,9719,209,944
People per km²2,7546,202
Museums within 10 km68108
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km36

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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). 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.

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.