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The twin towers of the cathedral over Plaza de Armas, Guadalajara
GuadalajaraThe twin towers of the cathedral over Plaza de Armas
The Opera House from the water, Sydney
SydneyThe Opera House from the water

Photos: Guadalajara by Ponchomx, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Sydney by Bernard Spragg, CC0.

Guadalajara or Sydney?

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 Guadalajara for

  • prices
  • day trips
  • nightlife

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

Choose Sydney for

  • beaches
  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Sydney’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. Guadalajara 5, Sydney 95: Sydney leads by 90 points.
Food & drink. Guadalajara 75, Sydney 77: Sydney leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Guadalajara 62, Sydney 60: Guadalajara leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Guadalajara 68, Sydney 60: Guadalajara leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Guadalajara 55, Sydney 85: Sydney leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Guadalajara 66, Sydney 50: Guadalajara leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Guadalajara 55, Sydney 75: Sydney leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Guadalajara 40, Sydney 75: Sydney leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. Guadalajara 60, Sydney 68: Sydney leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Guadalajara 78, Sydney 22: Guadalajara leads by 56 points.
Live music & performing arts. Guadalajara 60, Sydney 73: Sydney leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Guadalajara 35, Sydney 55: Sydney leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Guadalajara and Sydney.

Your match

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

Guadalajara
55match

Wins on prices and day trips with your weighting.

Sydney
Best match
66match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Guadalajara in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
205 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Sydney in July

18 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
70 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
19 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Guadalajara has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Guadalajara: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGuadalajaraSydney
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaEnglish
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number911000
Elevation1,536 m6 m
Main airportGuadalajara International Airport (GDL)17 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGuadalajaraSydney
City population1,385,6215,450,496
People per km²9,556449
Museums within 10 km1738
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Swim season, months above 21 °C-6 months

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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. 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.