VacationSelector

Ghent or Mexico City?

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

Your match

Ghent
50
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

Mexico City
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on year-round weather and nightlife 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.

GhentMexico City
Beaches & swimming. Ghent leads by 26 points.26
GhentMexico City
Score260
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km84
Coast distance32 km247 km
Water distance32 km—
Places to eat. Ghent leads by 4 points.4
GhentMexico City
Score7066
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7642,179
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4915
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 21 points.21
GhentMexico City
Score5879
Museums within 10 km24138
Museums within 2 km of centre2065
Share of museums within 2 km %8347
Unesco sites within 50 km56
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 29 points.29
GhentMexico City
Score4978
Drinking venues within 4 km5702,156
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre446926
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7843
Nightclubs within 4 km26198
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 29 points.29
GhentMexico City
Score3463
Protected land share 50 km %730
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %87100
Park area within 2 km84 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Ghent and Mexico City are level on 50.
GhentMexico City
Score5050
Tourist attractions within 2 km1923
Park area within 2 km84 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Mexico City leads by 8 points.8
GhentMexico City
Score4654
Notable places within 2 km5588
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 16 points.16
GhentMexico City
Score6076
Price level global76.254.2
Daily budget€180—
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 34 points.34
GhentMexico City
Score5690
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C22.2 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 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
Ghent
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Mexico City
22
25
26
28
27
26
25
25
24
23
23
22
Sea temperature, °C
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Mexico City
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Daylight, hours per day
Ghent
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
Ghent
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2
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. Ghent: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (44.9 km from centre). Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGhentMexico City
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 56 km
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 56 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
12 h 40 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 56 km
14 h 5 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 56 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
15 h 20 m
€1,089-1205
3 stops
MEX · 7 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
9 h 25 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 2026-08 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

MeasureGhentMexico City
Official languageFrench, German, DutchSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation12 m2,240 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureGhentMexico City
City population272,6579,209,944
People per km²1,7286,202
Museums within 10 km30108
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km56
Distinct cuisines in the centre8350
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone–

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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). 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.