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The Metropolitan Cathedral on the Zócalo, Mexico City
Mexico CityThe Metropolitan Cathedral on the Zócalo
Rabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira, Porto
PortoRabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira

Photos: Mexico City by Oscar Dominguez, Pexels License; Porto by Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Mexico City or Porto?

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
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Porto for

  • beaches
  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Porto’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, Porto 40: Porto leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Mexico City 90, Porto 70: Mexico City leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Mexico City 88, Porto 68: Mexico City leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Mexico City 80, Porto 65: Mexico City leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Mexico City 50, Porto 64: Porto leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Mexico City 75, Porto 79: Porto leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Mexico City 58, Porto 52: Mexico City leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Mexico City 50, Porto 66: Porto leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Mexico City 76, Porto 52: Mexico City leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Mexico City 75, Porto 62: Mexico City leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Mexico City 72, Porto 52: Mexico City leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Mexico City 40, Porto 34: Mexico City leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Mexico City and Porto.

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 food and drink with your weighting.

Porto
59match

Wins on beaches and getting around 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

Porto in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
22 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Mexico CityPorto

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). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMexico CityPorto
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaPortuguese
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,240 m104 m
Main airportMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre109 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre134 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMexico CityPorto
City population9,209,944273,476
People per km²6,2026,606
Museums within 10 km10842
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km63
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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.