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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 Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal, Venice
VeniceThe Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal

Photos: Guadalajara by Ponchomx, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Venice by David Vives, Pexels License.

Guadalajara or Venice?

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
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

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

Choose Venice for

  • beaches
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Venice’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, Venice 56: Venice leads by 51 points.
Food & drink. Guadalajara 75, Venice 60: Guadalajara leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Guadalajara 62, Venice 94: Venice leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Guadalajara 68, Venice 27: Guadalajara leads by 41 points.
Nature & outdoors. Guadalajara 55, Venice 45: Guadalajara leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Guadalajara 66, Venice 86: Venice leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Guadalajara 55, Venice 45: Guadalajara leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Guadalajara 40, Venice 68: Venice leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Guadalajara 60, Venice 57: Guadalajara leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Guadalajara 78, Venice 20: Guadalajara leads by 58 points.
Live music & performing arts. Guadalajara 60, Venice 62: Venice leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Guadalajara 35, Venice 40: Venice leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Guadalajara and Venice.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Guadalajara
55match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Venice
55match

Wins on beaches and culture and sights 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

Venice in July

29 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
61 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 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.

Venice 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.

Venice's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Treviso / S. Angelo.

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. Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Venezia / Tessera (6.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGuadalajaraVenice
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaItalian
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,536 m2 m
Main airportGuadalajara International Airport (GDL)17 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureGuadalajaraVenice
City population1,385,621250,369
People per km²9,556602
Museums within 10 km1752
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 months

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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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.