VacationSelector

Mexico City or Tokyo?

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

Your match

Mexico City
62
match

Wins on year-round weather and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Tokyo
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on places to eat and 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 CityTokyo
Beaches & swimming. Tokyo leads by 21 points.21
Mexico CityTokyo
Score021
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km41
Coast distance247 km5 km
Water distance5 km
Places to eat. Tokyo leads by 24 points.24
Mexico CityTokyo
Score6690
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,1796,936
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1525
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 13 points.13
Mexico CityTokyo
Score7966
Museums within 10 km138302
Museums within 2 km of centre6552
Share of museums within 2 km %4717
Unesco sites within 50 km61
Nightlife. Tokyo leads by 17 points.17
Mexico CityTokyo
Score7895
Drinking venues within 4 km2,1566,895
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre9263,033
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4344
Nightclubs within 4 km19858
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 5 points.5
Mexico CityTokyo
Score6358
Protected land share 50 km %30
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10085
Park area within 2 km32 hectares85 hectares
Good for families. Tokyo leads by 21 points.21
Mexico CityTokyo
Score5071
Tourist attractions within 2 km2340
Park area within 2 km32 hectares85 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km49
Sights concentration. Tokyo leads by 6 points.6
Mexico CityTokyo
Score5460
Notable places within 2 km88121
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 6 points.6
Mexico CityTokyo
Score7670
Price level global54.262.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 26 points.26
Mexico CityTokyo
Score9064
Monthly daytime high22.2 °C to 27.9 °C10 °C to 31.5 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 186 mm57 mm to 237 mm
Dry months60
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
Tokyo
10
11
14
19
24
26
30
32
28
22
17
12
Sea temperature, °C
Mexico City
No coastline within reach
Tokyo
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Tokyo
60
57
117
134
140
168
157
155
221
237
97
58
Daylight, hours per day
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Tokyo
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Mexico City
8
8
9
8
8
6
6
6
5
6
7
7
Tokyo
6
6
6
6
6
4
5
6
4
4
5
6

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). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMexico CityTokyo
SeoulICN, GMP
14 h 55 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 10 m
€124-187
NRT · 56 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
3 h 35 m
€248-282
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
11 h 0 m
€789-943
HND · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
13 h 30 m
€813-1004
HND · 18 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 50 m
€259-271
MEX · 7 km
12 h 35 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
15 h 20 m
€1,089-1205
3 stops
MEX · 7 km
3 h 10 m
€333-353
HND · 18 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
2 h 25 m
€203-306
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
12 h 55 m
€966-988
1 stop
HND · 18 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
2 h 5 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
13 h 15 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
MonterreyMTY
1 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
13 h 15 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 55 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
11 h 40 m
€786-939
1 stop
HND · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
HND · 18 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 CityTokyo
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaJapanese
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation2,240 m6 m
Main airportMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureMexico CityTokyo
City population9,209,94414,264,798
People per km²6,2026,501
Museums within 10 km108191
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km61
Distinct cuisines in the centre50125
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. 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.