VacationSelector

Mexico City or Tampa?

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 museums & heritage and nightlife with your weighting.

Tampa
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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 CityTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 75 points.75
Mexico CityTampa
Score075
Swim season months08
Beaches 10 km410
Coast distance247 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Mexico City leads by 12 points.12
Mexico CityTampa
Score6654
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,179359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1531
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 52 points.52
Mexico CityTampa
Score7927
Museums within 10 km13813
Museums within 2 km of centre6510
Share of museums within 2 km %4777
Unesco sites within 50 km60
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 39 points.39
Mexico CityTampa
Score7839
Drinking venues within 4 km2,156324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre926227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4370
Nightclubs within 4 km19826
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 33 points.33
Mexico CityTampa
Score6330
Protected land share 50 km %306
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10072
Park area within 2 km32 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Mexico City leads by 20 points.20
Mexico CityTampa
Score5030
Tourist attractions within 2 km233
Park area within 2 km32 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km45
Sights concentration. Mexico City leads by 33 points.33
Mexico CityTampa
Score5421
Notable places within 2 km8813
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 33 points.33
Mexico CityTampa
Score7643
Price level global54.2100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 15 points.15
Mexico CityTampa
Score9075
Monthly daytime high22.2 °C to 27.9 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 186 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months61
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
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Mexico City
No coastline within reach
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Mexico City
8
8
9
8
8
6
6
6
5
6
7
7
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7

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). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMexico CityTampa
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 50 m
€259-271
MEX · 7 km
2 h 35 m
€176-204
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
CancunCUN
2 h 10 m
€123-162
MEX · 7 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
3 h 35 m
€248-282
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
4 h 30 m
€367-420
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
2 h 25 m
€203-306
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
2 h 25 m
€163-176
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
2 h 5 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
DenverDEN, APA
3 h 25 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
TokyoHND, NRT
14 h 0 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
MCO · 125 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 CityTampa
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,240 m30 m
Main airportMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMexico CityTampa
City population9,209,944384,959
People per km²6,202848
Museums within 10 km1086
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Distinct cuisines in the centre5047
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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. 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.