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Hamburg or Mexico City?

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

Your match

Hamburg
53
match

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

Mexico City
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on year-round weather and nature & day trips with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

HamburgMexico City
Beaches & swimming. Hamburg and Mexico City are level on 0.
HamburgMexico City
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km164
Coast distance22 km247 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Hamburg leads by 7 points.7
HamburgMexico City
Score7366
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1502,179
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3815
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 19 points.19
HamburgMexico City
Score6079
Museums within 10 km94138
Museums within 2 km of centre5065
Share of museums within 2 km %5347
Unesco sites within 50 km16
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 10 points.10
HamburgMexico City
Score6878
Drinking venues within 4 km1,3392,156
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre834926
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6243
Nightclubs within 4 km119198
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 23 points.23
HamburgMexico City
Score4063
Protected land share 50 km %1430
Landscape blanket share 50 km %100
Land share of disc %99100
Park area within 2 km89 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Hamburg leads by 10 points.10
HamburgMexico City
Score6050
Tourist attractions within 2 km4023
Park area within 2 km89 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Hamburg leads by 5 points.5
HamburgMexico City
Score5954
Notable places within 2 km11888
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 16 points.16
HamburgMexico City
Score6076
Price level global75.954.2
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 35 points.35
HamburgMexico City
Score5590
Monthly daytime high4.3 °C to 23.2 °C22.2 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 82 mm3 mm to 186 mm
Dry months16
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
Hamburg
4
5
9
14
18
21
23
23
19
14
8
5
Mexico City
22
25
26
28
27
26
25
25
24
23
23
22
Rainfall, mm
Hamburg
67
55
57
39
58
74
82
77
65
63
61
72
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Daylight, hours per day
Hamburg
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Hamburg
1
2
4
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
2
1
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. Hamburg: 1991-2020 normals, Hamburg Airport (9.3 km from centre). Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHamburgMexico City
MunichMUC
1 h 20 m
€195-270
HAM · 9 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€89-225
HAM · 9 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€178-237
HAM · 9 km
14 h 5 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€357-416
HAM · 9 km
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€127-153
HAM · 9 km
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€155-168
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 5 m
€337-378
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 45 m
€193
HAM · 9 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 15 m
€155-168
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
12 h 40 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

MeasureHamburgMexico City
Official languageGermanSpanish, 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
Elevation6 m2,240 m
Main airportHamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM)9 km from centre119 non-stop destinationsMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureHamburgMexico City
City population1,910,1609,209,944
People per km²2,5306,202
Museums within 10 km77108
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km16
Distinct cuisines in the centre8350

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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.