VacationSelector

Mexico City or Toronto?

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 nature & day trips and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Toronto
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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 CityToronto
Beaches & swimming. Toronto leads by 43 points.43
Mexico CityToronto
Score043
Swim season months01
Beaches 10 km458
Coast distance247 km533 km
Water distance5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 16 points.16
Mexico CityToronto
Score6682
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,1792,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1539
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 36 points.36
Mexico CityToronto
Score7943
Museums within 10 km13835
Museums within 2 km of centre6525
Share of museums within 2 km %4771
Unesco sites within 50 km60
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 9 points.9
Mexico CityToronto
Score7869
Drinking venues within 4 km2,1561,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre926966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4364
Nightclubs within 4 km198103
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 37 points.37
Mexico CityToronto
Score6326
Protected land share 50 km %302
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km32 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Toronto leads by 7 points.7
Mexico CityToronto
Score5057
Tourist attractions within 2 km2323
Park area within 2 km32 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km44
Sights concentration. Toronto leads by 7 points.7
Mexico CityToronto
Score5461
Notable places within 2 km88128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 22 points.22
Mexico CityToronto
Score7654
Price level global54.284
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 35 points.35
Mexico CityToronto
Score9055
Monthly daytime high22.2 °C to 27.9 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 186 mm51 mm to 85 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
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Mexico City
No coastline within reach
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Toronto
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Mexico City
8
8
9
8
8
6
6
6
5
6
7
7
Toronto
No sunshine record

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). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMexico CityToronto
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
1 h 20 m
€244-359
YYZ · 20 km
CancunCUN
2 h 10 m
€123-162
MEX · 7 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
Puerto VallartaPVR
1 h 25 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 50 m
€259-271
MEX · 7 km
1 h 30 m
€185-501
YYZ · 20 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
5 h 0 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 15 m
€143-160
YYZ · 20 km
San Jose Del CaboSJD
2 h 5 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
4 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
3 h 5 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
15 h 20 m
€1,089-1205
3 stops
MEX · 7 km
13 h 5 m
€1,024-1087
2 stops
YYZ · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
13 h 40 m
€717-891
YYZ · 20 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 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 CityToronto
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaFrench, English
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,240 m76 m
Main airportMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMexico CityToronto
City population9,209,9442,794,356
People per km²6,2024,434
Museums within 10 km10832
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Distinct cuisines in the centre50102
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month

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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.