VacationSelector

Mexico City or Seattle?

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 museums & heritage and value for money with your weighting.

Seattle
52
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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 CitySeattle
Beaches & swimming. Seattle leads by 60 points.60
Mexico CitySeattle
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km4100
Coast distance247 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Seattle leads by 9 points.9
Mexico CitySeattle
Score6675
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,1791,460
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1535
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 43 points.43
Mexico CitySeattle
Score7936
Museums within 10 km13828
Museums within 2 km of centre6517
Share of museums within 2 km %4761
Unesco sites within 50 km60
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 21 points.21
Mexico CitySeattle
Score7857
Drinking venues within 4 km2,156873
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre926696
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4380
Nightclubs within 4 km19834
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 23 points.23
Mexico CitySeattle
Score6340
Protected land share 50 km %309
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10080
Park area within 2 km32 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Mexico City leads by 4 points.4
Mexico CitySeattle
Score5046
Tourist attractions within 2 km2317
Park area within 2 km32 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Mexico City leads by 2 points.2
Mexico CitySeattle
Score5452
Notable places within 2 km8876
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 33 points.33
Mexico CitySeattle
Score7643
Price level global54.2100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 29 points.29
Mexico CitySeattle
Score9061
Monthly daytime high22.2 °C to 27.9 °C7.8 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 186 mm15 mm to 160 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
Seattle
8
10
12
15
19
21
25
25
22
15
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Mexico City
No coastline within reach
Seattle
8
8
8
9
10
11
12
12
11
10
9
9
Rainfall, mm
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Seattle
147
96
106
81
48
37
15
25
41
99
160
147
Daylight, hours per day
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Seattle
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
Seattle
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). Seattle: 1991-2020 normals, Seattle-Tacoma Airport (17.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMexico CitySeattle
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
3 h 35 m
€248-282
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
2 h 30 m
€111-203
SEA · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
5 h 15 m
€300-424
SEA · 18 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 50 m
€259-271
MEX · 7 km
3 h 55 m
€257-317
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
DenverDEN, APA
3 h 25 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
2 h 25 m
€203-306
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
3 h 50 m
€204-286
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
CancunCUN
2 h 10 m
€123-162
MEX · 7 km
5 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
GuadalajaraGDL
1 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
SeoulICN, GMP
14 h 55 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
14 h 40 m
€1,006-1077
2 stops
SEA · 18 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 CitySeattle
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,240 m40 m
Main airportMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMexico CitySeattle
City population9,209,944737,015
People per km²6,2021,996
Museums within 10 km10827
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Distinct cuisines in the centre5078
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. 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.