VacationSelector

Mexico City or Sofia?

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 year-round weather and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Sofia
56
match

Wins on value for money 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 CitySofia
Beaches & swimming. Mexico City and Sofia are level on 0.
Mexico CitySofia
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km40
Coast distance247 km214 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Mexico City leads by 2 points.2
Mexico CitySofia
Score6664
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,179845
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1528
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 22 points.22
Mexico CitySofia
Score7957
Museums within 10 km13851
Museums within 2 km of centre6540
Share of museums within 2 km %4778
Unesco sites within 50 km61
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 17 points.17
Mexico CitySofia
Score7861
Drinking venues within 4 km2,156958
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre926608
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4363
Nightclubs within 4 km198102
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 12 points.12
Mexico CitySofia
Score6351
Protected land share 50 km %3012
Landscape blanket share 50 km %04
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km32 hectares229 hectares
Good for families. Sofia leads by 5 points.5
Mexico CitySofia
Score5055
Tourist attractions within 2 km2320
Park area within 2 km32 hectares229 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Sofia leads by 3 points.3
Mexico CitySofia
Score5457
Notable places within 2 km88104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sofia leads by 23 points.23
Mexico CitySofia
Score7699
Price level global54.221.4
Daily budget€77
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 26 points.26
Mexico CitySofia
Score9064
Monthly daytime high22.2 °C to 27.9 °C3.5 °C to 28.4 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 186 mm36 mm to 78 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
Sofia
4
7
11
17
21
25
28
28
23
18
11
5
Rainfall, mm
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Sofia
36
36
45
52
73
78
64
56
54
56
38
41
Daylight, hours per day
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sofia
9
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
Sofia
3
4
6
6
8
9
10
10
7
5
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). Sofia: 1991-2020 normals, Sofia Observ. (7.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMexico CitySofia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 55 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
2 h 45 m
€88-145
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
MunichMUC
12 h 15 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 8 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
14 h 5 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 15 m
€116-123
SOF · 8 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 40 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 8 km
MadridMAD
11 h 20 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
3 h 20 m
€114-128
SOF · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
4 h 45 m
€298-357
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SOF · 8 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 CitySofia
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaBulgarian
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,240 m560 m
Main airportMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsSofia Airport (SOF)8 km from centre94 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureMexico CitySofia
City population9,209,9441,213,134
People per km²6,2022,466
Museums within 10 km10842
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km61
Distinct cuisines in the centre5051

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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.