VacationSelector

Hong Kong or Mexico City?

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

Your match

Hong Kong
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

Mexico City
62
match

Wins on museums & heritage and year-round weather with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

Hong KongMexico City
Beaches & swimming. Hong Kong leads by 87 points.87
Hong KongMexico City
Score870
Swim season months80
Beaches 10 km654
Coast distance0 km247 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Hong Kong leads by 22 points.22
Hong KongMexico City
Score8866
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,3252,179
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3215
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 43 points.43
Hong KongMexico City
Score3679
Museums within 10 km50138
Museums within 2 km of centre1765
Share of museums within 2 km %3447
Unesco sites within 50 km06
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 7 points.7
Hong KongMexico City
Score7178
Drinking venues within 4 km1,9482,156
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,154926
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5943
Nightclubs within 4 km37198
Nature & day trips. Hong Kong leads by 1 points.1
Hong KongMexico City
Score6463
Protected land share 50 km %830
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %29100
Park area within 2 km52 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Hong Kong leads by 8 points.8
Hong KongMexico City
Score5850
Tourist attractions within 2 km2723
Park area within 2 km52 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km54
Sights concentration. Hong Kong leads by 15 points.15
Hong KongMexico City
Score6954
Notable places within 2 km20488
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 13 points.13
Hong KongMexico City
Score6376
Price level global7254.2
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 16 points.16
Hong KongMexico City
Score7490
Monthly daytime high19.4 °C to 31.3 °C22.2 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 493 mm3 mm to 186 mm
Dry months46
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
Hong Kong
19
20
22
26
29
30
31
31
31
28
25
21
Mexico City
22
25
26
28
27
26
25
25
24
23
23
22
Sea temperature, °C
Hong Kong
20
20
21
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Mexico City
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Hong Kong
23
39
70
144
280
493
381
453
331
92
36
31
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Daylight, hours per day
Hong Kong
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Hong Kong
5
3
3
4
5
5
7
6
6
6
6
5
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. Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre). Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHong KongMexico City
TokyoHND, NRT
4 h 5 m
€279-371
HKG · 25 km
14 h 0 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
SeoulICN, GMP
3 h 5 m
€168-188
HKG · 25 km
14 h 55 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
3 h 0 m
€127-156
HKG · 25 km
15 h 20 m
€1,089-1205
3 stops
MEX · 7 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
14 h 25 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
3 h 35 m
€248-282
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
15 h 55 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
12 h 45 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
5 h 20 m
€321-367
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
15 h 25 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
3 h 50 m
€259-271
MEX · 7 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
16 h 0 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
2 h 25 m
€203-306
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
€472-535
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
12 h 30 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
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 2026-09 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

MeasureHong KongMexico City
Official languageStandard ChineseSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyHong Kong Dollar (HKD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsG220 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-6
Emergency number999911
Elevation7 m2,240 m
Main airportHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre151 non-stop destinationsMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureHong KongMexico City
City population7,413,0709,209,944
People per km²6,202
Museums within 10 km39108
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km06
Distinct cuisines in the centre7650
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 months

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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. 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. 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.