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Korenlei reflected in the Leie, Ghent
GhentKorenlei reflected in the Leie
The Metropolitan Cathedral on the Zócalo, Mexico City
Mexico CityThe Metropolitan Cathedral on the Zócalo

Photos: Ghent by ykeiko, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Mexico City by Oscar Dominguez, Pexels License.

Ghent or Mexico City?

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 Ghent for

  • getting around
  • beaches
  • day trips

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

Choose Mexico City for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Mexico City’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. Ghent 25, Mexico City 5: Ghent leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Ghent 62, Mexico City 90: Mexico City leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Ghent 72, Mexico City 88: Mexico City leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Ghent 55, Mexico City 80: Mexico City leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Ghent 35, Mexico City 50: Mexico City leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Ghent 88, Mexico City 75: Ghent leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Ghent 50, Mexico City 58: Mexico City leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Ghent 78, Mexico City 50: Ghent leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Ghent 50, Mexico City 76: Mexico City leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Ghent 38, Mexico City 75: Mexico City leads by 37 points.
Live music & performing arts. Ghent 60, Mexico City 72: Mexico City leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Ghent 33, Mexico City 40: Mexico City leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Ghent and Mexico City.

Your match

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

Ghent
54match

Wins on getting around and beaches with your weighting.

Mexico City
Best match
63match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Ghent in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
77 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Mexico City in July

25 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
176 mmrain in the month
6 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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Where the figures come from

Ghent 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.

Ghent's sunshine is measured 45 km from the centre, at Vlissingen.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Ghent: 2009-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Melle / Kalverhaag (10.1 km from centre). Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre).

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 centre109 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
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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Sources

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. 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). 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.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.