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Budapest 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, 2 points apart

Budapest
60
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration with your weighting.

Mexico City
62
match

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

BudapestMexico City
Beaches & swimming. Budapest and Mexico City are level on 0.
BudapestMexico City
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km64
Coast distance10,000 km247 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Budapest leads by 11 points.11
BudapestMexico City
Score7766
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,6992,179
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3515
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 15 points.15
BudapestMexico City
Score6479
Museums within 10 km144138
Museums within 2 km of centre6465
Share of museums within 2 km %4447
Unesco sites within 50 km16
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 6 points.6
BudapestMexico City
Score7278
Drinking venues within 4 km1,7652,156
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,168926
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6643
Nightclubs within 4 km97198
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 23 points.23
BudapestMexico City
Score4063
Protected land share 50 km %830
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km111 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Budapest leads by 21 points.21
BudapestMexico City
Score7150
Tourist attractions within 2 km7523
Park area within 2 km111 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Budapest leads by 15 points.15
BudapestMexico City
Score6954
Notable places within 2 km20688
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Budapest leads by 4 points.4
BudapestMexico City
Score8076
Price level global4854.2
Daily budget€104
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 26 points.26
BudapestMexico City
Score6490
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 27.9 °C22.2 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 75 mm3 mm to 186 mm
Dry months56
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
Budapest
4
7
11
17
22
26
27
28
22
16
9
4
Mexico City
22
25
26
28
27
26
25
25
24
23
23
22
Rainfall, mm
Budapest
29
27
30
37
67
67
75
60
48
41
48
39
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Daylight, hours per day
Budapest
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Budapest
2
4
5
7
9
9
10
9
7
5
3
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. Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre). Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBudapestMexico City
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€63-91
BUD · 18 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 50 m
€87-214
BUD · 18 km
14 h 5 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€93-118
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€97-114
BUD · 18 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 40 m
€52-62
BUD · 18 km
12 h 40 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 40 m
€123-153
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 25 m
€276-394
2 stops
BUD · 18 km
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 5 m
€175-230
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
9 h 5 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
4 h 30 m
€367-420
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 15 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
14 h 55 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBudapestMexico City
Official languageHungarianSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyForint (HUF)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation117 m2,240 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre155 non-stop destinationsMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestMexico City
City population1,685,2099,209,944
People per km²3,2096,202
Museums within 10 km81108
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km16
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). 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.