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The Metropolitan Cathedral on the Zócalo, Mexico City
Mexico CityThe Metropolitan Cathedral on the Zócalo
The lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park, Paphos
PaphosThe lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park

Photos: Mexico City by Oscar Dominguez, Pexels License; Paphos by Nikodem Nijaki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Mexico City or Paphos?

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 Mexico City for

  • shopping
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

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

Choose Paphos for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Paphos’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. Mexico City 5, Paphos 76: Paphos leads by 71 points.
Food & drink. Mexico City 90, Paphos 45: Mexico City leads by 45 points.
Culture & sights. Mexico City 88, Paphos 62: Mexico City leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Mexico City 80, Paphos 38: Mexico City leads by 42 points.
Nature & outdoors. Mexico City 50, Paphos 70: Paphos leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Mexico City 75, Paphos 64: Mexico City leads by 11 points.
Good for families. Mexico City 58, Paphos 68: Paphos leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Mexico City 50, Paphos 40: Mexico City leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Mexico City 76, Paphos 25: Mexico City leads by 51 points.
Affordability. Mexico City 75, Paphos 52: Mexico City leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Mexico City 72, Paphos 22: Mexico City leads by 50 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Mexico City 40, Paphos 42: Paphos leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Mexico City and Paphos.

Your match

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

Mexico City
Best match
63match

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

Paphos
50match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Mexico City in July

25 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
176 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Paphos in July

30 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
27 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Paphos 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. Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMexico CityPaphos
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,240 m72 m
Main airportMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre109 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre58 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureMexico CityPaphos
City population9,209,94435,961
People per km²6,2021,987
Museums within 10 km1084
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km62
Swim season, months above 21 °C-6 months

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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. 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. 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.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.