VacationSelector

Mexico City or Stockholm?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Mexico City
62
match

Wins on year-round weather and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Stockholm
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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 CityStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 60 points.60
Mexico CityStockholm
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km473
Coast distance247 km0 km
Water distance—0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 10 points.10
Mexico CityStockholm
Score6676
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,1791,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1536
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 10 points.10
Mexico CityStockholm
Score7969
Museums within 10 km13874
Museums within 2 km of centre6547
Share of museums within 2 km %4764
Unesco sites within 50 km63
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 14 points.14
Mexico CityStockholm
Score7864
Drinking venues within 4 km2,1561,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre926689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4363
Nightclubs within 4 km198106
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 22 points.22
Mexico CityStockholm
Score6341
Protected land share 50 km %307
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10077
Park area within 2 km32 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Stockholm leads by 7 points.7
Mexico CityStockholm
Score5057
Tourist attractions within 2 km2323
Park area within 2 km32 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 25 points.25
Mexico CityStockholm
Score5479
Notable places within 2 km88357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 19 points.19
Mexico CityStockholm
Score7657
Price level global54.280.3
Daily budget—€169
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 37 points.37
Mexico CityStockholm
Score9053
Monthly daytime high22.2 °C to 27.9 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 186 mm27 mm to 66 mm
Dry months65
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
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Mexico City
No coastline within reach
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Mexico City
8
8
9
8
8
6
6
6
5
6
7
7
Stockholm
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
6
3
1
1

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). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMexico CityStockholm
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
3 h 25 m
€90-234
ARN · 36 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 55 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 5 m
€152-213
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
MunichMUC
12 h 15 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 15 m
€202-238
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
6 h 20 m
€330-429
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
15 h 20 m
€1,089-1205
3 stops
MEX · 7 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
Punta CanaPUJ
4 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 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 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 centre95 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 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
Distinct cuisines in the centre5081
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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. 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. 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.