VacationSelector

Mexico City or Orlando?

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 sights concentration with your weighting.

Orlando
40
match

Wins on good for families 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 CityOrlando
Beaches & swimming. Mexico City and Orlando are level on 0.
Mexico CityOrlando
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km41
Coast distance247 km68 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Mexico City leads by 18 points.18
Mexico CityOrlando
Score6648
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,179365
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1521
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 71 points.71
Mexico CityOrlando
Score798
Museums within 10 km13811
Museums within 2 km of centre652
Share of museums within 2 km %4718
Unesco sites within 50 km60
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 37 points.37
Mexico CityOrlando
Score7841
Drinking venues within 4 km2,156344
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre926216
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4363
Nightclubs within 4 km19839
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 19 points.19
Mexico CityOrlando
Score6344
Protected land share 50 km %3015
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km32 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Orlando leads by 39 points.39
Mexico CityOrlando
Score5089
Tourist attractions within 2 km23
Park area within 2 km32 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km420
Theme park ground ha 30 km8,853
Zoo aquarium 15 km2
Scoring variantfamilyScoreThemeGroundLed
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Sights concentration. Mexico City leads by 38 points.38
Mexico CityOrlando
Score5416
Notable places within 2 km8810
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 33 points.33
Mexico CityOrlando
Score7643
Price level global54.2100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 16 points.16
Mexico CityOrlando
Score9074
Monthly daytime high22.2 °C to 27.9 °C22.1 °C to 33.3 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 186 mm46 mm to 203 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
Orlando
22
24
26
29
31
33
33
33
32
29
26
23
Rainfall, mm
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Orlando
63
52
77
66
101
203
189
195
160
88
46
63
Daylight, hours per day
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Orlando
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Mexico City
8
8
9
8
8
6
6
6
5
6
7
7
Orlando
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). Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMexico CityOrlando
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
2 h 25 m
€158-197
MCO · 14 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
3 h 35 m
€248-282
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
4 h 50 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 50 m
€259-271
MEX · 7 km
2 h 35 m
€157-165
MCO · 14 km
CancunCUN
2 h 10 m
€123-162
MEX · 7 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
4 h 30 m
€367-420
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
2 h 25 m
€203-306
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
2 h 30 m
€195-271
1 stop
MCO · 14 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
2 h 5 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
8 h 50 m
€483-548
1 stop
MCO · 14 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
TokyoHND, NRT
14 h 0 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
MCO · 14 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 CityOrlando
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 m34 m
Main airportMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMexico CityOrlando
City population9,209,944334,854
People per km²6,2021,086
Museums within 10 km10811
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Distinct cuisines in the centre5030

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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.