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Granada or Mexico City?

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

Your match

Granada
53
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat with your weighting.

Mexico City
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

GranadaMexico City
Beaches & swimming. Granada and Mexico City are level on 0.
GranadaMexico City
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km04
Coast distance48 km247 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Granada leads by 1 points.1
GranadaMexico City
Score6766
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8722,179
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3415
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 31 points.31
GranadaMexico City
Score4879
Museums within 10 km28138
Museums within 2 km of centre2665
Share of museums within 2 km %9347
Unesco sites within 50 km16
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 26 points.26
GranadaMexico City
Score5278
Drinking venues within 4 km6372,156
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre494926
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7843
Nightclubs within 4 km46198
Nature & day trips. Granada and Mexico City are level on 63.
GranadaMexico City
Score6363
Protected land share 50 km %2730
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %96100
Park area within 2 km46 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Granada leads by 6 points.6
GranadaMexico City
Score5650
Tourist attractions within 2 km6023
Park area within 2 km46 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Mexico City leads by 10 points.10
GranadaMexico City
Score4454
Notable places within 2 km5088
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 5 points.5
GranadaMexico City
Score7176
Price level global60.854.2
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 16 points.16
GranadaMexico City
Score7490
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 34.8 °C22.2 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 51 mm3 mm to 186 mm
Dry months76
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
Granada
13
15
18
20
25
31
35
34
29
24
17
14
Mexico City
22
25
26
28
27
26
25
25
24
23
23
22
Rainfall, mm
Granada
39
33
45
44
29
6
0
3
28
45
51
44
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Daylight, hours per day
Granada
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Granada
6
6
7
8
10
12
13
11
8
7
5
5
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. Granada: 1991-2020 normals, Granada / Caserío Hospicio (5 km from centre). Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGranadaMexico City
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 97 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 97 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 30 m
€92-138
GRX · 16 km
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 30 m
€59-73
AGP · 97 km
12 h 40 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 50 m
€124-199
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 5 m
€185-196
AGP · 97 km
14 h 5 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
no fares
GRX · 16 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 25 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
no fares
GRX · 16 km
11 h 30 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

MeasureGranadaMexico City
Official languageSpanishSpanish, 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
Elevation693 m2,240 m
Main airportF.G.L. Airport Granada-Jaén Airport (GRX)16 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureGranadaMexico City
City population233,9759,209,944
People per km²2,6596,202
Museums within 10 km19108
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km16
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.