VacationSelector

Mexico City or Salzburg?

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 nightlife and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Salzburg
42
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

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

Mexico CitySalzburg
Beaches & swimming. Mexico City and Salzburg are level on 0.
Mexico CitySalzburg
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km49
Coast distance247 km653 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Mexico City leads by 17 points.17
Mexico CitySalzburg
Score6649
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,179348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1523
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 19 points.19
Mexico CitySalzburg
Score7960
Museums within 10 km13842
Museums within 2 km of centre6527
Share of museums within 2 km %4764
Unesco sites within 50 km63
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 42 points.42
Mexico CitySalzburg
Score7836
Drinking venues within 4 km2,156294
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre926241
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4382
Nightclubs within 4 km19816
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 36 points.36
Mexico CitySalzburg
Score6327
Protected land share 50 km %306
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km32 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Mexico City leads by 2 points.2
Mexico CitySalzburg
Score5048
Tourist attractions within 2 km2317
Park area within 2 km32 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km44
Sights concentration. Mexico City leads by 8 points.8
Mexico CitySalzburg
Score5446
Notable places within 2 km8854
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 17 points.17
Mexico CitySalzburg
Score7659
Price level global54.276.9
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 36 points.36
Mexico CitySalzburg
Score9054
Monthly daytime high22.2 °C to 27.9 °C3.4 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 186 mm47 mm to 168 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.

J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Mexico City
22
25
26
28
27
26
25
25
24
23
23
22
Salzburg
3
6
10
16
20
23
25
25
20
15
8
4
Rainfall, mm
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Salzburg
62
47
83
80
142
168
159
167
127
90
70
67
Daylight, hours per day
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Salzburg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Mexico City
8
8
9
8
8
6
6
6
5
6
7
7
Salzburg
3
3
5
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
3
2

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). Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromMexico CitySalzburg
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 112 km
MadridMAD
11 h 20 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 112 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 50 m
€259-271
MEX · 7 km
9 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 40 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 30 m
€141-202
MUC · 112 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
3 h 35 m
€248-282
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
SZG · 3 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
15 h 20 m
€1,089-1205
3 stops
MEX · 7 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
9 h 25 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 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 CitySalzburg
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,240 m424 m
Main airportMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureMexico CitySalzburg
City population9,209,944155,021
People per km²6,2022,360
Museums within 10 km10838
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km63
Distinct cuisines in the centre5050

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Mexico City or Salzburg somewhere new.

Browse every destination we have measured

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.