VacationSelector

Mexico City or Venice?

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Venice
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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 CityVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 69 points.69
Mexico CityVenice
Score069
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km420
Coast distance247 km4 km
Water distance4 km
Places to eat. Mexico City leads by 21 points.21
Mexico CityVenice
Score6645
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,179750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1510
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 7 points.7
Mexico CityVenice
Score7972
Museums within 10 km13857
Museums within 2 km of centre6545
Share of museums within 2 km %4779
Unesco sites within 50 km65
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 43 points.43
Mexico CityVenice
Score7835
Drinking venues within 4 km2,156342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre926306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4389
Nightclubs within 4 km1983
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 46 points.46
Mexico CityVenice
Score6317
Protected land share 50 km %304
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10070
Park area within 2 km32 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Venice leads by 7 points.7
Mexico CityVenice
Score5057
Tourist attractions within 2 km2372
Park area within 2 km32 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km43
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 29 points.29
Mexico CityVenice
Score5483
Notable places within 2 km88464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 8 points.8
Mexico CityVenice
Score7668
Price level global54.264.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 24 points.24
Mexico CityVenice
Score9066
Monthly daytime high22.2 °C to 27.9 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 186 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months62
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
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Mexico City
No coastline within reach
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Mexico City
8
8
9
8
8
6
6
6
5
6
7
7
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
3

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). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMexico CityVenice
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
1 h 45 m
€41-56
VCE · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 7 km
MadridMAD
11 h 20 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 7 km
CancunCUN
2 h 10 m
€123-162
MEX · 7 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 113 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 40 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 10 m
€81-119
VCE · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 7 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
15 h 20 m
€1,089-1205
3 stops
MEX · 7 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 7 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 CityVenice
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaItalian
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,240 m2 m
Main airportMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMexico CityVenice
City population9,209,944250,369
People per km²6,202602
Museums within 10 km10852
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km65
Distinct cuisines in the centre5046
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. 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.