VacationSelector

Mexico City or Miami?

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

Your match

Mexico City
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money with your weighting.

Miami
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

Mexico CityMiami
Beaches & swimming. Miami leads by 95 points.95
Mexico CityMiami
Score095
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km420
Coast distance247 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Mexico City leads by 1 points.1
Mexico CityMiami
Score6665
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,179898
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1529
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 56 points.56
Mexico CityMiami
Score7923
Museums within 10 km13828
Museums within 2 km of centre656
Share of museums within 2 km %4721
Unesco sites within 50 km60
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 28 points.28
Mexico CityMiami
Score7850
Drinking venues within 4 km2,156538
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre926287
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4353
Nightclubs within 4 km19863
Nature & day trips. Miami leads by 9 points.9
Mexico CityMiami
Score6372
Protected land share 50 km %3016
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10048
Park area within 2 km32 hectares50 hectares
Good for families. Mexico City leads by 6 points.6
Mexico CityMiami
Score5044
Tourist attractions within 2 km2314
Park area within 2 km32 hectares50 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Mexico City leads by 12 points.12
Mexico CityMiami
Score5442
Notable places within 2 km8845
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 33 points.33
Mexico CityMiami
Score7643
Price level global54.2100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 16 points.16
Mexico CityMiami
Score9074
Monthly daytime high22.2 °C to 27.9 °C24.7 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 186 mm47 mm to 267 mm
Dry months60
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
Mexico City
22
25
26
28
27
26
25
25
24
23
23
22
Miami
25
26
27
29
31
32
33
33
32
30
28
26
Sea temperature, °C
Mexico City
No coastline within reach
Miami
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
Daylight, hours per day
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Miami
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Mexico City
8
8
9
8
8
6
6
6
5
6
7
7
Miami
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre). Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMexico CityMiami
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
2 h 45 m
€205-247
MIA · 7 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 50 m
€259-271
MEX · 7 km
2 h 55 m
€143-193
MIA · 7 km
CancunCUN
2 h 10 m
€123-162
MEX · 7 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
BogotaBOG
4 h 25 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
2 h 5 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 30 m
€103-188
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
MonterreyMTY
1 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
2 h 25 m
€203-306
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
2 h 45 m
€144-205
MIA · 7 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
4 h 30 m
€367-420
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
3 h 0 m
€202-362
MIA · 7 km
MadridMAD
11 h 20 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 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

MeasureMexico CityMiami
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,240 m2 m
Main airportMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMexico CityMiami
City population9,209,944442,241
People per km²6,2023,046
Museums within 10 km10817
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Distinct cuisines in the centre5039
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.