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The junk Duk Ling in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong
Hong KongThe junk Duk Ling in Victoria Harbour
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: Hong Kong by LN9267, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; San Miguel de Allende by Russ Bowling, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Hong Kong 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 Hong Kong for

  • getting around
  • beaches
  • families

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

Choose San Miguel de Allende for

  • wellness
  • prices
  • day trips

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. Hong Kong 50, San Miguel de Allende 4: Hong Kong leads by 46 points.
Food & drink. Hong Kong 90, San Miguel de Allende 62: Hong Kong leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Hong Kong 60, San Miguel de Allende 62: San Miguel de Allende leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Hong Kong 68, San Miguel de Allende 38: Hong Kong leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hong Kong 80, San Miguel de Allende 40: Hong Kong leads by 40 points.
Day trips. Hong Kong 68, San Miguel de Allende 77: San Miguel de Allende leads by 9 points.
Good for families. Hong Kong 75, San Miguel de Allende 32: Hong Kong leads by 43 points.
Getting around. Hong Kong 97, San Miguel de Allende 48: Hong Kong leads by 49 points.
Shopping & style. Hong Kong 88, San Miguel de Allende 55: Hong Kong leads by 33 points.
Affordability. Hong Kong 27, San Miguel de Allende 50: San Miguel de Allende leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hong Kong 55, San Miguel de Allende 40: Hong Kong leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hong Kong 42, San Miguel de Allende 66: San Miguel de Allende leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hong Kong and San Miguel de Allende.

Your match

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

Hong Kong
Best match
67match

Wins on getting around and beaches with your weighting.

San Miguel de Allende
48match

Wins on wellness and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Hong Kong in July

31 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
381 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine 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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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. Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre). San Miguel de Allende: 1991-2020 normals, Guanajuato, Gto. (53.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHong KongSan Miguel de Allende
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 m1,900 m
Main airportHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre148 non-stop destinationsGuanajuato International Airport (BJX)77 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureHong KongSan Miguel de Allende
City population7,413,07069,811
Museums within 10 km392
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 months-

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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.