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The Metropolitan Cathedral on the Zócalo, Mexico City
Mexico CityThe Metropolitan Cathedral on the Zócalo
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Mexico City by Oscar Dominguez, Pexels License; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Mexico City or Stockholm?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Mexico City for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Mexico City’s own page.

Choose Stockholm for

  • beaches
  • getting around
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Stockholm’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Mexico City 5, Stockholm 40: Stockholm leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Mexico City 90, Stockholm 64: Mexico City leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Mexico City 88, Stockholm 77: Mexico City leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Mexico City 80, Stockholm 57: Mexico City leads by 23 points.
Nature & outdoors. Mexico City 50, Stockholm 72: Stockholm leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Mexico City 75, Stockholm 68: Mexico City leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Mexico City 58, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Mexico City 50, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Mexico City 76, Stockholm 70: Mexico City leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Mexico City 75, Stockholm 30: Mexico City leads by 45 points.
Live music & performing arts. Mexico City 72, Stockholm 65: Mexico City leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Mexico City 40, Stockholm 56: Stockholm leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Mexico City and Stockholm.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Mexico City
63match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

Stockholm
64match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Mexico City in July

25 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
176 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Stockholm in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
65 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Mexico CityStockholm

Where the figures come from

Stockholm has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Stockholm's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Stockholm Observatoriet.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre). Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMexico CityStockholm
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaSwedish
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,240 m22 m
Main airportMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre109 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureMexico CityStockholm
City population9,209,944984,748
People per km²6,2025,260
Museums within 10 km108266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km63
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.