VacationSelector

Mexico City or Split?

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 places to eat with your weighting.

Split
51
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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 CitySplit
Beaches & swimming. Split leads by 73 points.73
Mexico CitySplit
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km487
Coast distance247 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Mexico City leads by 28 points.28
Mexico CitySplit
Score6638
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,179268
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1515
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 27 points.27
Mexico CitySplit
Score7952
Museums within 10 km13818
Museums within 2 km of centre6516
Share of museums within 2 km %4789
Unesco sites within 50 km64
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 37 points.37
Mexico CitySplit
Score7841
Drinking venues within 4 km2,156379
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre926263
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4369
Nightclubs within 4 km19823
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 25 points.25
Mexico CitySplit
Score6338
Protected land share 50 km %309
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10062
Park area within 2 km32 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Mexico City leads by 24 points.24
Mexico CitySplit
Score5026
Tourist attractions within 2 km239
Park area within 2 km32 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Mexico City leads by 12 points.12
Mexico CitySplit
Score5442
Notable places within 2 km8843
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Split leads by 4 points.4
Mexico CitySplit
Score7680
Price level global54.248.5
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 21 points.21
Mexico CitySplit
Score9069
Monthly daytime high22.2 °C to 27.9 °C10.7 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 186 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months62
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
Split
11
12
15
18
23
28
31
31
25
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Mexico City
No coastline within reach
Split
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Split
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Split
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
Split
5
5
7
7
9
10
12
11
8
7
4
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). Split: 1991-2020 normals, Split / Marjan (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMexico CitySplit
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 30 m
€88-160
SPU · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 55 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 45 m
€169-224
SPU · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 40 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 12 km
MunichMUC
12 h 15 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
2 h 5 m
€108-177
SPU · 12 km
MadridMAD
11 h 20 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
SPU · 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 2026-08 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 CitySplit
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaCroatian
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 m0 m
Main airportMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsSplit Saint Jerome Airport (SPU)12 km from centre70 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMexico CitySplit
City population9,209,944160,577
People per km²6,202
Museums within 10 km10811
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km64
Distinct cuisines in the centre5031
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months

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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.