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The Three Graces at Pier Head, Liverpool
LiverpoolThe Three Graces at Pier Head
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: Liverpool by Marathon, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; San Miguel de Allende by Russ Bowling, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Liverpool 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 Liverpool for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • families

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

Choose San Miguel de Allende for

  • wellness
  • food and drink
  • 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. Liverpool 22, San Miguel de Allende 4: Liverpool leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Liverpool 48, San Miguel de Allende 62: San Miguel de Allende leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Liverpool 64, San Miguel de Allende 62: Liverpool leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Liverpool 66, San Miguel de Allende 38: Liverpool leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Liverpool 52, San Miguel de Allende 40: Liverpool leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Liverpool 64, San Miguel de Allende 77: San Miguel de Allende leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Liverpool 55, San Miguel de Allende 32: Liverpool leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Liverpool 68, San Miguel de Allende 48: Liverpool leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Liverpool 52, San Miguel de Allende 55: San Miguel de Allende leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Liverpool and San Miguel de Allende are level on 50.
Live music & performing arts. Liverpool 66, San Miguel de Allende 40: Liverpool leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Liverpool 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: Liverpool and San Miguel de Allende.

Your match

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

Liverpool
Best match
52match

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

San Miguel de Allende
48match

Wins on wellness and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Liverpool in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
67 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
17 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

Liverpool's temperatures are measured 47 km from the centre, at Manchester Airport.

Liverpool 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. Liverpool: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (47.4 km from centre). San Miguel de Allende: 1991-2020 normals, Guanajuato, Gto. (53.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLiverpoolSan Miguel de Allende
Official languageEnglishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation70 m1,900 m
Main airportLiverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL)12 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsGuanajuato International Airport (BJX)77 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureLiverpoolSan Miguel de Allende
City population513,44169,811
People per km²4,592-
Museums within 10 km312
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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.