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A classic car in front of the Capitolio, Havana
HavanaA classic car in front of the Capitolio
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: Havana by AXP Photography, Pexels License; San Miguel de Allende by Russ Bowling, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Havana 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 Havana for

  • beaches
  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife

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

Choose San Miguel de Allende for

  • wellness
  • day trips
  • 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. Havana 64, San Miguel de Allende 4: Havana leads by 60 points.
Food & drink. Havana 40, San Miguel de Allende 62: San Miguel de Allende leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Havana 77, San Miguel de Allende 62: Havana leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Havana 60, San Miguel de Allende 38: Havana leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Havana 34, San Miguel de Allende 40: San Miguel de Allende leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Havana 38, San Miguel de Allende 77: San Miguel de Allende leads by 39 points.
Good for families. Havana 34, San Miguel de Allende 32: Havana leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Havana 38, San Miguel de Allende 48: San Miguel de Allende leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Havana 30, San Miguel de Allende 55: San Miguel de Allende leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Havana 58, San Miguel de Allende 50: Havana leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Havana 74, San Miguel de Allende 40: Havana leads by 34 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Havana 22, San Miguel de Allende 66: San Miguel de Allende leads by 44 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Havana and San Miguel de Allende.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Havana
47match

Wins on beaches and live music and the arts with your weighting.

San Miguel de Allende
48match

Wins on wellness and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Havana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
118 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 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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HavanaSan Miguel de Allende

Where the figures come from

Havana 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.

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. Havana: 1991-2020 normals, Casa Blanca, La Habana (3.5 km from centre). San Miguel de Allende: 1991-2020 normals, Guanajuato, Gto. (53.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHavanaSan Miguel de Allende
Official languageSpanishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyCuban Peso (CUP)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-6
Emergency numberPolice 106, ambulance 104, fire 105911
Elevation59 m1,900 m
Main airportJosé Martí International Airport (HAV)17 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsGuanajuato International Airport (BJX)77 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureHavanaSan Miguel de Allende
City population2,492,61869,811
People per km²3,423-
Museums within 10 km122
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

Where else could you go?

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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). 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). 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. Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), 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.