VacationSelector

Mexico City or Munich?

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 year-round weather and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Munich
57
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 CityMunich
Beaches & swimming. Mexico City and Munich are level on 0.
Mexico CityMunich
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km46
Coast distance247 km579 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Munich leads by 7 points.7
Mexico CityMunich
Score6673
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,1791,280
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1535
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 18 points.18
Mexico CityMunich
Score7961
Museums within 10 km13874
Museums within 2 km of centre6548
Share of museums within 2 km %4765
Unesco sites within 50 km61
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 11 points.11
Mexico CityMunich
Score7867
Drinking venues within 4 km2,1561,335
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre926763
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4357
Nightclubs within 4 km198103
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 15 points.15
Mexico CityMunich
Score6348
Protected land share 50 km %3017
Landscape blanket share 50 km %015
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km32 hectares199 hectares
Good for families. Munich leads by 29 points.29
Mexico CityMunich
Score5079
Tourist attractions within 2 km2380
Park area within 2 km32 hectares199 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Munich leads by 14 points.14
Mexico CityMunich
Score5468
Notable places within 2 km88196
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 16 points.16
Mexico CityMunich
Score7660
Price level global54.275.9
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 34 points.34
Mexico CityMunich
Score9056
Monthly daytime high22.2 °C to 27.9 °C4 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 186 mm46 mm to 121 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
Munich
4
6
10
15
19
23
25
25
20
15
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Munich
52
46
61
56
107
121
119
117
78
67
58
59
Daylight, hours per day
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Munich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Mexico City
8
8
9
8
8
6
6
6
5
6
7
7
Munich
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
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). Munich: 1991-2020 normals, München (1.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMexico CityMunich
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 45 m
€116-210
MUC · 29 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 50 m
€259-271
MEX · 7 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 29 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 55 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 0 m
€177-210
MUC · 29 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
14 h 5 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 30 m
€127-141
MUC · 29 km
MadridMAD
11 h 20 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 29 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
6 h 0 m
€292-332
MUC · 29 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
15 h 20 m
€1,089-1205
3 stops
MEX · 7 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
9 h 25 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 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 CityMunich
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaGerman
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,240 m519 m
Main airportMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsMunich Airport (MUC)29 km from centre208 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMexico CityMunich
City population9,209,9441,510,378
People per km²6,2024,861
Museums within 10 km10874
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km61
Distinct cuisines in the centre5089

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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.