VacationSelector

Florence or Mexico City?

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

Your match

Florence
55
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Mexico City
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

FlorenceMexico City
Beaches & swimming. Florence and Mexico City are level on 0.
FlorenceMexico City
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km04
Coast distance78 km247 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Mexico City leads by 7 points.7
FlorenceMexico City
Score5966
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,2992,179
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1515
Museums & heritage. Florence leads by 3 points.3
FlorenceMexico City
Score8279
Museums within 10 km132138
Museums within 2 km of centre9365
Share of museums within 2 km %7047
Unesco sites within 50 km46
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 22 points.22
FlorenceMexico City
Score5678
Drinking venues within 4 km8182,156
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre599926
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7343
Nightclubs within 4 km34198
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 25 points.25
FlorenceMexico City
Score3863
Protected land share 50 km %930
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km86 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Florence leads by 2 points.2
FlorenceMexico City
Score5250
Tourist attractions within 2 km3023
Park area within 2 km86 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Florence leads by 21 points.21
FlorenceMexico City
Score7554
Notable places within 2 km29288
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 8 points.8
FlorenceMexico City
Score6876
Price level global64.954.2
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 22 points.22
FlorenceMexico City
Score6890
Monthly daytime high10.8 °C to 32.7 °C22.2 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm3 mm to 186 mm
Dry months26
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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A
M
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J
A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Florence
11
12
16
20
24
29
32
33
27
22
16
11
Mexico City
22
25
26
28
27
26
25
25
24
23
23
22
Rainfall, mm
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Daylight, hours per day
Florence
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Florence
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
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. Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre). Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromFlorenceMexico City
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 6 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 6 km
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
12 h 40 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 85 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

MeasureFlorenceMexico 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
Elevation50 m2,240 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre36 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

MeasureFlorenceMexico City
City population360,9309,209,944
People per km²3,5286,202
Museums within 10 km140108
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km46
Distinct cuisines in the centre6250

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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.