VacationSelector

Frankfurt or Mexico City?

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

Your match

Frankfurt
57
match

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

Mexico City
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

FrankfurtMexico City
Beaches & swimming. Frankfurt and Mexico City are level on 0.
FrankfurtMexico City
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km44
Coast distance327 km247 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Frankfurt leads by 4 points.4
FrankfurtMexico City
Score7066
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1602,179
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3115
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 10 points.10
FrankfurtMexico City
Score6979
Museums within 10 km79138
Museums within 2 km of centre4365
Share of museums within 2 km %5447
Unesco sites within 50 km46
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 19 points.19
FrankfurtMexico City
Score5978
Drinking venues within 4 km9312,156
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre691926
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7443
Nightclubs within 4 km56198
Nature & day trips. Frankfurt leads by 1 points.1
FrankfurtMexico City
Score6463
Protected land share 50 km %2830
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km124 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Frankfurt leads by 18 points.18
FrankfurtMexico City
Score6850
Tourist attractions within 2 km4523
Park area within 2 km124 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Frankfurt leads by 7 points.7
FrankfurtMexico City
Score6154
Notable places within 2 km12988
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 16 points.16
FrankfurtMexico City
Score6076
Price level global75.954.2
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 28 points.28
FrankfurtMexico City
Score6290
Monthly daytime high5 °C to 26.2 °C22.2 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 68 mm3 mm to 186 mm
Dry months16
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
Frankfurt
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Mexico City
22
25
26
28
27
26
25
25
24
23
23
22
Rainfall, mm
Frankfurt
52
44
41
38
62
60
68
60
50
54
53
63
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Daylight, hours per day
Frankfurt
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Frankfurt
2
3
5
7
7
8
8
7
6
4
2
1
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. Frankfurt: 1991-2020 normals, Frankfurt Westend (2 km from centre). Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFrankfurtMexico City
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 13 km
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 13 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
8 h 50 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
3 h 50 m
€259-271
MEX · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 50 m
€135-301
FRA · 13 km
14 h 5 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 10 m
€628-668
FRA · 13 km
4 h 30 m
€367-420
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
CancunCUN
10 h 45 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
2 h 10 m
€123-162
MEX · 7 km
San Jose Del CaboSJD
12 h 15 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€102-123
FRA · 13 km
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€296-339
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 50 m
€683-756
FRA · 13 km
15 h 20 m
€1,089-1205
3 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 2026-09 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

MeasureFrankfurtMexico City
Official languageGermanSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation101 m2,240 m
Main airportFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)13 km from centre293 non-stop destinationsMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureFrankfurtMexico City
City population775,7909,209,944
People per km²3,1246,202
Museums within 10 km53108
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km46
Distinct cuisines in the centre7150

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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.