VacationSelector

Lisbon or Mexico City?

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

Your match

Lisbon
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families with your weighting.

Mexico City
62
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

LisbonMexico City
Beaches & swimming. Lisbon leads by 57 points.57
LisbonMexico City
Score570
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km244
Coast distance2 km247 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Lisbon leads by 14 points.14
LisbonMexico City
Score8066
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,4962,179
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3115
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 9 points.9
LisbonMexico City
Score7079
Museums within 10 km124138
Museums within 2 km of centre5465
Share of museums within 2 km %4447
Unesco sites within 50 km36
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 13 points.13
LisbonMexico City
Score6578
Drinking venues within 4 km1,2252,156
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre956926
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7843
Nightclubs within 4 km65198
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 7 points.7
LisbonMexico City
Score5663
Protected land share 50 km %1130
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %54100
Park area within 2 km77 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Lisbon leads by 19 points.19
LisbonMexico City
Score6950
Tourist attractions within 2 km8223
Park area within 2 km77 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Lisbon leads by 12 points.12
LisbonMexico City
Score6654
Notable places within 2 km16988
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 2 points.2
LisbonMexico City
Score7476
Price level global55.954.2
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 12 points.12
LisbonMexico City
Score7890
Monthly daytime high14.9 °C to 28.4 °C22.2 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 121 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
Lisbon
15
16
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
18
15
Mexico City
22
25
26
28
27
26
25
25
24
23
23
22
Sea temperature, °C
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
Mexico City
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Daylight, hours per day
Lisbon
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Lisbon
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
5
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. Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre). Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLisbonMexico City
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 30 m
€112-185
LIS · 7 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€64-74
LIS · 7 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 0 m
€621-718
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
€74-97
LIS · 7 km
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
10 h 0 m
€744-1049
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
CancunCUN
9 h 30 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
2 h 10 m
€123-162
MEX · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€167-189
LIS · 7 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 55 m
€421-500
2 stops
LIS · 7 km
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
SeoulICN, GMP
12 h 55 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
14 h 55 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

MeasureLisbonMexico City
Official languagePortugueseSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation100 m2,240 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinationsMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonMexico City
City population545,7969,209,944
People per km²5,4536,202
Museums within 10 km78108
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km36
Distinct cuisines in the centre10650
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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). 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.