VacationSelector

Mexico City or Paris?

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

Your match

Mexico City
62
match

Wins on year-round weather and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Paris
✓ Best match
67
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

Mexico CityParis
Beaches & swimming. Mexico City and Paris are level on 0.
Mexico CityParis
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km42
Coast distance247 km149 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Paris leads by 24 points.24
Mexico CityParis
Score6690
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,1794,732
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1533
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 3 points.3
Mexico CityParis
Score7976
Museums within 10 km138185
Museums within 2 km of centre6565
Share of museums within 2 km %4735
Unesco sites within 50 km64
Nightlife. Paris leads by 10 points.10
Mexico CityParis
Score7888
Drinking venues within 4 km2,1563,796
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre9261,694
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4345
Nightclubs within 4 km198201
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 15 points.15
Mexico CityParis
Score6348
Protected land share 50 km %3028
Landscape blanket share 50 km %026
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km32 hectares82 hectares
Good for families. Paris leads by 25 points.25
Mexico CityParis
Score5075
Tourist attractions within 2 km2389
Park area within 2 km32 hectares82 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km43
Sights concentration. Paris leads by 40 points.40
Mexico CityParis
Score5494
Notable places within 2 km88865
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 14 points.14
Mexico CityParis
Score7662
Price level global54.273.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 24 points.24
Mexico CityParis
Score9066
Monthly daytime high22.2 °C to 27.9 °C7.8 °C to 26 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 186 mm38 mm to 75 mm
Dry months61
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
Paris
8
9
13
17
20
24
26
26
22
17
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Paris
45
38
41
45
75
51
58
54
51
55
54
62
Daylight, hours per day
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Paris
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
Paris
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). Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMexico CityParis
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
7 h 30 m
€579-648
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
3 h 35 m
€248-282
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
11 h 25 m
€687-789
CDG · 22 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 5 m
€63-103
CDG · 22 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
1 h 40 m
€110-135
CDG · 22 km
CancunCUN
2 h 10 m
€123-162
MEX · 7 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
MadridMAD
11 h 20 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 55 m
€107-141
ORY · 14 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
6 h 50 m
€292-389
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
MonterreyMTY
1 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
4 h 30 m
€367-420
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
7 h 45 m
€445-510
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
TokyoHND, NRT
14 h 0 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
12 h 5 m
€705-999
1 stop
CDG · 22 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 CityParis
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaFrench
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,240 m27 m
Main airportMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMexico CityParis
City population9,209,9442,103,778
People per km²6,20219,960
Museums within 10 km108251
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km64
Distinct cuisines in the centre50169

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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.