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The railway viaduct over the canal, Castlefield, Manchester
ManchesterThe railway viaduct over the canal, Castlefield
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: Manchester by IIya Kuzhekin, CC BY 3.0, cropped; San Miguel de Allende by Russ Bowling, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Manchester 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 Manchester for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • families

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

Choose San Miguel de Allende for

  • wellness
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

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. Manchester 9, San Miguel de Allende 4: Manchester leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Manchester 51, San Miguel de Allende 62: San Miguel de Allende leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Manchester 50, San Miguel de Allende 62: San Miguel de Allende leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Manchester 72, San Miguel de Allende 38: Manchester leads by 34 points.
Nature & outdoors. Manchester 64, San Miguel de Allende 40: Manchester leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Manchester and San Miguel de Allende are level on 77.
Good for families. Manchester 58, San Miguel de Allende 32: Manchester leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Manchester 68, San Miguel de Allende 48: Manchester leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Manchester 62, San Miguel de Allende 55: Manchester leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Manchester 42, San Miguel de Allende 50: San Miguel de Allende leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Manchester 74, San Miguel de Allende 40: Manchester leads by 34 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Manchester 15, San Miguel de Allende 66: San Miguel de Allende leads by 51 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Manchester and San Miguel de Allende.

Your match

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

Manchester
Best match
54match

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

San Miguel de Allende
48match

Wins on wellness and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Manchester in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
60 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

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. Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre). San Miguel de Allende: 1991-2020 normals, Guanajuato, Gto. (53.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureManchesterSan 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
Elevation38 m1,900 m
Main airportManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre211 non-stop destinationsGuanajuato International Airport (BJX)77 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureManchesterSan Miguel de Allende
City population547,62769,811
People per km²4,737-
Museums within 10 km282
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.