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Mexico City or Valencia?

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, 2 points apart

Mexico City
62
match

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

Valencia
64
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 CityValencia
Beaches & swimming. Valencia leads by 67 points.67
Mexico CityValencia
Score067
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km412
Coast distance247 km3 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Valencia leads by 12 points.12
Mexico CityValencia
Score6678
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,1791,995
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1533
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 24 points.24
Mexico CityValencia
Score7955
Museums within 10 km13859
Museums within 2 km of centre6526
Share of museums within 2 km %4744
Unesco sites within 50 km62
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 8 points.8
Mexico CityValencia
Score7870
Drinking venues within 4 km2,1561,513
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre926957
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4363
Nightclubs within 4 km198108
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 10 points.10
Mexico CityValencia
Score6353
Protected land share 50 km %3010
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10064
Park area within 2 km32 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Mexico City leads by 8 points.8
Mexico CityValencia
Score5042
Tourist attractions within 2 km2312
Park area within 2 km32 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Mexico City leads by 2 points.2
Mexico CityValencia
Score5452
Notable places within 2 km8878
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 5 points.5
Mexico CityValencia
Score7671
Price level global54.260.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 6 points.6
Mexico CityValencia
Score9084
Monthly daytime high22.2 °C to 27.9 °C16.8 °C to 30.6 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 186 mm7 mm to 70 mm
Dry months68
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
Valencia
17
17
19
21
24
28
30
31
28
25
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Mexico City
No coastline within reach
Valencia
14
14
14
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Valencia
38
30
40
33
36
26
7
15
70
66
52
48
Daylight, hours per day
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Valencia
10
11
12
13
14
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
Valencia
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
8
7
6
5

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). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMexico CityValencia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 15 m
€80-167
VLC · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 55 m
€103-131
VLC · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 25 m
€155-178
VLC · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 40 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 0 m
€70-117
VLC · 9 km
MadridMAD
11 h 20 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 0 m
€69-81
VLC · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 55 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 15 m
€128-199
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
14 h 5 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
3 h 35 m
€167-378
VLC · 9 km
MunichMUC
12 h 15 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 20 m
€196-284
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
1 h 10 m
€62-93
ALC · 133 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
5 h 0 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 9 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 2026-09 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 CityValencia
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaSpanish
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,240 m15 m
Main airportMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre107 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMexico CityValencia
City population9,209,944840,792
People per km²6,2026,242
Museums within 10 km10846
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km62
Distinct cuisines in the centre5092
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. 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.