VacationSelector

Interlaken or Mexico City?

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

Your match

Interlaken
23
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Mexico City
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on nightlife and museums & heritage with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

InterlakenMexico City
Beaches & swimming. Interlaken and Mexico City are level on 0.
InterlakenMexico City
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km124
Coast distance713 km247 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Mexico City leads by 37 points.37
InterlakenMexico City
Score2966
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1182,179
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1715
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 56 points.56
InterlakenMexico City
Score2379
Museums within 10 km5138
Museums within 2 km of centre265
Share of museums within 2 km %4047
Unesco sites within 50 km26
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 74 points.74
InterlakenMexico City
Score478
Drinking venues within 4 km422,156
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre38926
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9043
Nightclubs within 4 km3198
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 36 points.36
InterlakenMexico City
Score2763
Protected land share 50 km %1930
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km5 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Mexico City leads by 36 points.36
InterlakenMexico City
Score1450
Tourist attractions within 2 km1123
Park area within 2 km5 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Mexico City leads by 32 points.32
InterlakenMexico City
Score2254
Notable places within 2 km1488
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 41 points.41
InterlakenMexico City
Score3576
Price level global110.554.2
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 33 points.33
InterlakenMexico City
Score5790
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 23.6 °C22.2 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 68 mm3 mm to 186 mm
Dry months36
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
Interlaken
3
5
9
15
17
22
24
23
18
14
7
4
Mexico City
22
25
26
28
27
26
25
25
24
23
23
22
Rainfall, mm
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Daylight, hours per day
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Interlaken
No sunshine record
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. Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre). Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInterlakenMexico City
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 100 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€114-151
ZRH · 100 km
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
9 h 5 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
3 h 50 m
€259-271
MEX · 7 km
CancunCUN
10 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 10 m
€123-162
MEX · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 100 km
14 h 5 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 100 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 10 m
€710-815
1 stop
MXP · 135 km
15 h 20 m
€1,089-1205
3 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 2026-08 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

MeasureInterlakenMexico City
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation571 m2,240 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 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

MeasureInterlakenMexico City
City population6,1239,209,944
People per km²1,4246,202
Museums within 10 km3108
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km26
Distinct cuisines in the centre2250

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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). 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.