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The Old Town Clock on Citadel Hill, Halifax
HalifaxThe Old Town Clock on Citadel Hill
A cobbled street of painted houses in the old town, San Miguel de Allende
San Miguel de AllendeA cobbled street of painted houses in the old town

Photos: Halifax by Danieljmacdonald, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; San Miguel de Allende by Russ Bowling, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Halifax or San Miguel de Allende?

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 Halifax for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose San Miguel de Allende for

  • wellness
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on San Miguel de Allende’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. Halifax 32, San Miguel de Allende 4: Halifax leads by 28 points.
Food & drink. Halifax 50, San Miguel de Allende 62: San Miguel de Allende leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Halifax 42, San Miguel de Allende 62: San Miguel de Allende leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Halifax 46, San Miguel de Allende 38: Halifax leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Halifax 62, San Miguel de Allende 40: Halifax leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Halifax 63, San Miguel de Allende 77: San Miguel de Allende leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Halifax 55, San Miguel de Allende 32: Halifax leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Halifax and San Miguel de Allende are level on 48.
Shopping & style. Halifax 35, San Miguel de Allende 55: San Miguel de Allende leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Halifax 38, San Miguel de Allende 50: San Miguel de Allende leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Halifax 46, San Miguel de Allende 40: Halifax leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Halifax 28, San Miguel de Allende 66: San Miguel de Allende leads by 38 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Halifax and San Miguel de Allende.

Your match

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

Halifax
45match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

San Miguel de Allende
Best match
48match

Wins on wellness 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.

Halifax in July

22 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
101 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
14 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

San Miguel de Allende in July

29 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
132 mmrain in the month
7 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

San Miguel de Allende's temperatures are measured 54 km from the centre, at Guanajuato, Gto..

San Miguel de Allende 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Halifax: 1991-2020 normals, Shearwater Airport (6 km from centre). San Miguel de Allende: 1991-2020 normals, Guanajuato, Gto. (53.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHalifaxSan Miguel de Allende
Official languageFrench, EnglishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4, UTC-3 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number911911
Elevation28 m1,900 m
Main airportHalifax / Stanfield International Airport (YHZ)26 km from centre40 non-stop destinationsGuanajuato International Airport (BJX)77 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureHalifaxSan Miguel de Allende
City population440,07269,811
People per km²80-
Museums within 10 km152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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). 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. 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.