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Mexico City or Milan?

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, 1 point apart

Mexico City
62
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money with your weighting.

Milan
63
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration 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 CityMilan
Beaches & swimming. Mexico City and Milan are level on 0.
Mexico CityMilan
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km44
Coast distance247 km120 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Milan leads by 4 points.4
Mexico CityMilan
Score6670
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,1791,991
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1520
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 5 points.5
Mexico CityMilan
Score7974
Museums within 10 km13887
Museums within 2 km of centre6555
Share of museums within 2 km %4763
Unesco sites within 50 km64
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 3 points.3
Mexico CityMilan
Score7875
Drinking venues within 4 km2,1562,215
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre926961
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4343
Nightclubs within 4 km19870
Nature & day trips. Milan leads by 2 points.2
Mexico CityMilan
Score6365
Protected land share 50 km %3030
Landscape blanket share 50 km %011
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km32 hectares102 hectares
Good for families. Milan leads by 27 points.27
Mexico CityMilan
Score5077
Tourist attractions within 2 km2376
Park area within 2 km32 hectares102 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km45
Sights concentration. Milan leads by 20 points.20
Mexico CityMilan
Score5474
Notable places within 2 km88266
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 8 points.8
Mexico CityMilan
Score7668
Price level global54.264.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 26 points.26
Mexico CityMilan
Score9064
Monthly daytime high22.2 °C to 27.9 °C7 °C to 28.6 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 186 mm44 mm to 127 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
Milan
7
10
15
17
23
26
29
28
24
18
11
7
Rainfall, mm
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Milan
54
44
50
78
102
75
57
83
116
113
127
49
Daylight, hours per day
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Milan
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Mexico City
8
8
9
8
8
6
6
6
5
6
7
7
Milan
3
4
5
6
7
7
9
8
5
4
2
2

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). Milan: 1991-2020 normals, Novara / Cameri (41.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMexico CityMilan
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 40 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
1 h 30 m
€34-53
MXP · 40 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 45 m
€48-103
MXP · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 40 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 40 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 15 m
€116-135
LIN · 7 km
CancunCUN
2 h 10 m
€123-162
MEX · 7 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
MXP · 40 km
MadridMAD
11 h 20 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 40 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
14 h 5 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 40 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 40 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
15 h 20 m
€1,089-1205
3 stops
MEX · 7 km
10 h 10 m
€710-815
1 stop
MXP · 40 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 CityMilan
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaItalian
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,240 m138 m
Main airportMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)40 km from centre203 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMexico CityMilan
City population9,209,9441,354,196
People per km²6,2027,453
Museums within 10 km10887
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km64
Distinct cuisines in the centre5079

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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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.