VacationSelector

Mexico City or Strasbourg?

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 museums & heritage with your weighting.

Strasbourg
47
match

Wins on sights concentration 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 CityStrasbourg
Beaches & swimming. Mexico City and Strasbourg are level on 0.
Mexico CityStrasbourg
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km49
Coast distance247 km398 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Strasbourg leads by 1 points.1
Mexico CityStrasbourg
Score6667
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,179780
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1536
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 38 points.38
Mexico CityStrasbourg
Score7941
Museums within 10 km13823
Museums within 2 km of centre6514
Share of museums within 2 km %4761
Unesco sites within 50 km61
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 42 points.42
Mexico CityStrasbourg
Score7836
Drinking venues within 4 km2,156305
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre926264
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4387
Nightclubs within 4 km19817
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 9 points.9
Mexico CityStrasbourg
Score6354
Protected land share 50 km %3037
Landscape blanket share 50 km %035
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km32 hectares71 hectares
Good for families. Mexico City leads by 12 points.12
Mexico CityStrasbourg
Score5038
Tourist attractions within 2 km239
Park area within 2 km32 hectares71 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Strasbourg leads by 4 points.4
Mexico CityStrasbourg
Score5458
Notable places within 2 km88109
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 14 points.14
Mexico CityStrasbourg
Score7662
Price level global54.273.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 27 points.27
Mexico CityStrasbourg
Score9063
Monthly daytime high22.2 °C to 27.9 °C5.2 °C to 26.4 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 186 mm34 mm to 77 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
Strasbourg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
22
16
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Strasbourg
35
34
39
42
77
68
72
61
55
59
47
45
Daylight, hours per day
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Strasbourg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Mexico City
8
8
9
8
8
6
6
6
5
6
7
7
Strasbourg
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
3
2
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). Strasbourg: 1991-2020 normals, Strasbourg (9.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMexico CityStrasbourg
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
9 h 25 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
CancunCUN
2 h 10 m
€123-162
MEX · 7 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 137 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
3 h 35 m
€248-282
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 50 m
€259-271
MEX · 7 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
1 h 45 m
€133-212
1 stop
SXB · 10 km
BogotaBOG
4 h 25 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
2 h 25 m
€203-306
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
4 h 30 m
€367-420
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 137 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 CityStrasbourg
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaFrench
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,240 m132 m
Main airportMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsStrasbourg Airport (SXB)10 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMexico CityStrasbourg
City population9,209,944293,771
People per km²6,2023,752
Museums within 10 km10821
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km61
Distinct cuisines in the centre5087

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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.