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Fort Lauderdale or Mexico City?

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

Your match

Fort Lauderdale
45
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Mexico City
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

Fort LauderdaleMexico City
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 84 points.84
Fort LauderdaleMexico City
Score840
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km74
Coast distance0 km247 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Mexico City leads by 21 points.21
Fort LauderdaleMexico City
Score4566
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3712,179
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1815
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 59 points.59
Fort LauderdaleMexico City
Score2079
Museums within 10 km14138
Museums within 2 km of centre665
Share of museums within 2 km %4347
Unesco sites within 50 km06
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 44 points.44
Fort LauderdaleMexico City
Score3478
Drinking venues within 4 km2592,156
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre144926
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5643
Nightclubs within 4 km18198
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 18 points.18
Fort LauderdaleMexico City
Score8163
Protected land share 50 km %2030
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Mexico City leads by 31 points.31
Fort LauderdaleMexico City
Score1950
Tourist attractions within 2 km223
Park area within 2 km45 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Mexico City leads by 54 points.54
Fort LauderdaleMexico City
Score054
Notable places within 2 km288
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 33 points.33
Fort LauderdaleMexico City
Score4376
Price level global10054.2
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 14 points.14
Fort LauderdaleMexico City
Score7690
Monthly daytime high24.2 °C to 32.3 °C22.2 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 219 mm3 mm to 186 mm
Dry months06
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
Fort Lauderdale
24
26
27
29
30
31
32
32
31
30
27
26
Mexico City
22
25
26
28
27
26
25
25
24
23
23
22
Sea temperature, °C
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Mexico City
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Daylight, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
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. Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre). Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFort LauderdaleMexico City
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 40 m
€140-271
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 55 m
€119-159
FLL · 7 km
3 h 50 m
€259-271
MEX · 7 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 0 m
€167-168
FLL · 7 km
4 h 30 m
€367-420
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
2 h 45 m
€133-174
FLL · 7 km
2 h 25 m
€203-306
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
2 h 30 m
no fares
FLL · 7 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
5 h 5 m
€218-274
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
3 h 35 m
€248-282
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
CancunCUN
1 h 40 m
no fares
FLL · 7 km
2 h 10 m
€123-162
MEX · 7 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
2 h 25 m
€164-177
FLL · 7 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
MadridMAD
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 41 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

MeasureFort LauderdaleMexico City
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number911911
Elevation11 m2,240 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort LauderdaleMexico City
City population182,7609,209,944
People per km²1,8296,202
Museums within 10 km6108
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km06
Distinct cuisines in the centre2550
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.