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Beira Lake with Seema Malaka and the Lotus Tower, Colombo
ColomboBeira Lake with Seema Malaka and the Lotus Tower
A cobbled street of painted houses in the old town, San Miguel de Allende
San Miguel de AllendeA cobbled street of painted houses in the old town

Photos: Colombo by Mohamed Ansaf, Pexels License; San Miguel de Allende by Russ Bowling, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Colombo or San Miguel de Allende?

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 Colombo for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • food and drink

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

Choose San Miguel de Allende for

  • day trips
  • wellness
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on San Miguel de Allende’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. Colombo 55, San Miguel de Allende 4: Colombo leads by 51 points.
Food & drink. Colombo 66, San Miguel de Allende 62: Colombo leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Colombo 45, San Miguel de Allende 62: San Miguel de Allende leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Colombo 35, San Miguel de Allende 38: San Miguel de Allende leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Colombo 32, San Miguel de Allende 40: San Miguel de Allende leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Colombo 50, San Miguel de Allende 77: San Miguel de Allende leads by 27 points.
Good for families. Colombo 35, San Miguel de Allende 32: Colombo leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Colombo 35, San Miguel de Allende 48: San Miguel de Allende leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Colombo 45, San Miguel de Allende 55: San Miguel de Allende leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Colombo 78, San Miguel de Allende 50: Colombo leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Colombo 30, San Miguel de Allende 40: San Miguel de Allende leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Colombo 48, San Miguel de Allende 66: San Miguel de Allende leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Colombo and San Miguel de Allende.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Colombo
46match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

San Miguel de Allende
48match

Wins on day trips and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Colombo in July

30 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
128 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
28 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

San Miguel de Allende in July

29 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
132 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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ColomboSan Miguel de Allende

Where the figures come from

San Miguel de Allende's temperatures are measured 54 km from the centre, at Guanajuato, Gto..

San Miguel de Allende 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Colombo: 1991-2020 normals, Colombo (3 km from centre). San Miguel de Allende: 1991-2020 normals, Guanajuato, Gto. (53.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureColomboSan Miguel de Allende
Official languageTamil, SinhalaSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencySri Lanka Rupee (LKR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsGM230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+5:30UTC-6
Emergency numberPolice 119, ambulance 110, fire 110911
Elevation1 m1,900 m
Main airportBandaranaike International Colombo Airport (CMB)28 km from centre56 non-stop destinationsGuanajuato International Airport (BJX)77 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-9 days

By the numbers

MeasureColomboSan Miguel de Allende
City population647,55769,811
People per km²17,361-
Museums within 10 km102
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.