VacationSelector

Calgary or Mexico City?

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

Your match

Calgary
38
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Mexico City
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

CalgaryMexico City
Beaches & swimming. Calgary and Mexico City are level on 0.
CalgaryMexico City
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km44
Coast distance649 km247 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Calgary and Mexico City are level on 66.
CalgaryMexico City
Score6666
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7492,179
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3615
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 70 points.70
CalgaryMexico City
Score979
Museums within 10 km8138
Museums within 2 km of centre365
Share of museums within 2 km %3847
Unesco sites within 50 km06
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 34 points.34
CalgaryMexico City
Score4478
Drinking venues within 4 km4652,156
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre343926
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7443
Nightclubs within 4 km19198
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 27 points.27
CalgaryMexico City
Score3663
Protected land share 50 km %430
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km142 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Mexico City leads by 9 points.9
CalgaryMexico City
Score4150
Tourist attractions within 2 km323
Park area within 2 km142 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km54
Sights concentration. Mexico City leads by 15 points.15
CalgaryMexico City
Score3954
Notable places within 2 km3788
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 22 points.22
CalgaryMexico City
Score5476
Price level global8454.2
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 33 points.33
CalgaryMexico City
Score5790
Monthly daytime high-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C22.2 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 106 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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Daytime high, °C
Calgary
0
-1
4
11
16
20
25
23
19
12
4
0
Mexico City
22
25
26
28
27
26
25
25
24
23
23
22
Rainfall, mm
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Daylight, hours per day
Calgary
9
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
Calgary
No sunshine record
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. Calgary: 1991-2020 normals, Calgary Int'l CS (8.2 km from centre). Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromCalgaryMexico City
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 50 m
€182-359
1 stop
YYC · 9 km
4 h 30 m
€367-420
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 15 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
3 h 50 m
€259-271
MEX · 7 km
Puerto VallartaPVR
4 h 45 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
2 h 55 m
€237-270
1 stop
YYC · 9 km
3 h 35 m
€248-282
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
1 h 30 m
€77-88
1 stop
YYC · 9 km
5 h 20 m
€321-367
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
4 h 0 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
4 h 10 m
€170-221
YYC · 9 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
10 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 45 m
no fares
YYC · 9 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

MeasureCalgaryMexico City
Official languageFrench, EnglishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number911911
Elevation1,045 m2,240 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 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

MeasureCalgaryMexico City
City population1,306,7849,209,944
People per km²1,5836,202
Museums within 10 km13108
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km06
Distinct cuisines in the centre6750

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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.