VacationSelector

Mexico City or Porto?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Mexico City
62
match

Wins on nature & day trips and nightlife with your weighting.

Porto
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and 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 CityPorto
Beaches & swimming. Porto leads by 60 points.60
Mexico CityPorto
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km452
Coast distance247 km4 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Porto leads by 2 points.2
Mexico CityPorto
Score6668
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,1791,172
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1527
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 8 points.8
Mexico CityPorto
Score7971
Museums within 10 km138101
Museums within 2 km of centre6557
Share of museums within 2 km %4756
Unesco sites within 50 km63
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 20 points.20
Mexico CityPorto
Score7858
Drinking venues within 4 km2,156900
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre926570
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4363
Nightclubs within 4 km19838
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 30 points.30
Mexico CityPorto
Score6333
Protected land share 50 km %307
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10061
Park area within 2 km32 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Porto leads by 15 points.15
Mexico CityPorto
Score5065
Tourist attractions within 2 km23122
Park area within 2 km32 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Mexico City and Porto are level on 54.
Mexico CityPorto
Score5454
Notable places within 2 km8885
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 2 points.2
Mexico CityPorto
Score7674
Price level global54.255.9
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 19 points.19
Mexico CityPorto
Score9071
Monthly daytime high22.2 °C to 27.9 °C13.8 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 186 mm22 mm to 181 mm
Dry months63
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
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Mexico City
No coastline within reach
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Daylight, hours per day
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Mexico City
8
8
9
8
8
6
6
6
5
6
7
7
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
5
4

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

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Getting there

Flying fromMexico CityPorto
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
MadridMAD
11 h 20 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
1 h 45 m
€81-135
OPO · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
CancunCUN
2 h 10 m
€123-162
MEX · 7 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 35 m
€158-202
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 55 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 35 m
€112-173
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
4 h 30 m
€367-420
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
MunichMUC
12 h 15 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
OPO · 12 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 2026-09 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 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 centre95 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMexico CityPorto
City population9,209,944231,800
People per km²6,2025,599
Museums within 10 km10842
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km63
Distinct cuisines in the centre5070
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. 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. 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.