VacationSelector

London or Mexico City?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

London
64
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families with your weighting.

Mexico City
62
match

Wins on year-round weather and nature & day trips 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.

LondonMexico City
Beaches & swimming. London and Mexico City are level on 0.
LondonMexico City
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km474
Coast distance43 km247 km
Water distance
Places to eat. London leads by 22 points.22
LondonMexico City
Score8866
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,3172,179
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4015
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 7 points.7
LondonMexico City
Score7279
Museums within 10 km148138
Museums within 2 km of centre4965
Share of museums within 2 km %3347
Unesco sites within 50 km46
Nightlife. London leads by 17 points.17
LondonMexico City
Score9578
Drinking venues within 4 km5,3272,156
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,443926
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4643
Nightclubs within 4 km312198
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 23 points.23
LondonMexico City
Score4063
Protected land share 50 km %1630
Landscape blanket share 50 km %140
Land share of disc %97100
Park area within 2 km84 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 25 points.25
LondonMexico City
Score7550
Tourist attractions within 2 km8523
Park area within 2 km84 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km34
Sights concentration. London leads by 35 points.35
LondonMexico City
Score8954
Notable places within 2 km64988
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 22 points.22
LondonMexico City
Score5476
Price level global84.954.2
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 27 points.27
LondonMexico City
Score6390
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 23.8 °C22.2 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 67 mm3 mm to 186 mm
Dry months16
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
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Mexico City
22
25
26
28
27
26
25
25
24
23
23
22
Rainfall, mm
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Daylight, hours per day
London
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
4
2
2
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. London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre). Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLondonMexico City
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
CancunCUN
10 h 5 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
2 h 10 m
€123-162
MEX · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 0 m
€61-144
LGW · 40 km
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 0 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
3 h 35 m
€248-282
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
8 h 10 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
3 h 50 m
€259-271
MEX · 7 km
BogotaBOG
10 h 40 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
9 h 40 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
2 h 25 m
€203-306
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
9 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 15 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
15 h 20 m
€1,089-1205
3 stops
MEX · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 10 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
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 2026-08 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

MeasureLondonMexico City
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
Elevation4 m2,240 m
Main airportLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinationsMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureLondonMexico City
City population8,799,7289,209,944
People per km²5,5986,202
Museums within 10 km215108
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km46
Distinct cuisines in the centre11650

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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). 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.