VacationSelector

Mexico City or Vienna?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

Vienna
59
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families 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 CityVienna
Beaches & swimming. Mexico City and Vienna are level on 0.
Mexico CityVienna
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km422
Coast distance247 km10,000 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Vienna leads by 11 points.11
Mexico CityVienna
Score6677
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,1791,617
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1537
Museums & heritage. Vienna leads by 2 points.2
Mexico CityVienna
Score7981
Museums within 10 km138192
Museums within 2 km of centre65110
Share of museums within 2 km %4757
Unesco sites within 50 km63
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 4 points.4
Mexico CityVienna
Score7874
Drinking venues within 4 km2,1561,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre9261,089
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4356
Nightclubs within 4 km198108
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 31 points.31
Mexico CityVienna
Score6332
Protected land share 50 km %304
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km32 hectares93 hectares
Good for families. Vienna leads by 19 points.19
Mexico CityVienna
Score5069
Tourist attractions within 2 km2346
Park area within 2 km32 hectares93 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km44
Sights concentration. Vienna leads by 21 points.21
Mexico CityVienna
Score5475
Notable places within 2 km88287
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 17 points.17
Mexico CityVienna
Score7659
Price level global54.276.9
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 29 points.29
Mexico CityVienna
Score9061
Monthly daytime high22.2 °C to 27.9 °C3.3 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 186 mm38 mm to 80 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
Vienna
3
6
11
17
21
25
27
27
21
15
9
4
Rainfall, mm
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Vienna
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Daylight, hours per day
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Vienna
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Mexico City
8
8
9
8
8
6
6
6
5
6
7
7
Vienna
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
6
4
2
2

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). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMexico CityVienna
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 10 m
€105-189
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
8 h 40 m
€736-786
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 55 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 25 m
€143-152
VIE · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
14 h 5 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 5 m
€121-285
VIE · 18 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
2 h 15 m
€117-169
VIE · 18 km
CancunCUN
2 h 10 m
€123-162
MEX · 7 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 50 m
€180-245
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
5 h 40 m
€292-307
VIE · 18 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
15 h 20 m
€1,089-1205
3 stops
MEX · 7 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
VIE · 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 CityVienna
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaGerman, Austrian Sign Language
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 m151 m
Main airportMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureMexico CityVienna
City population9,209,9442,028,289
People per km²6,2024,890
Museums within 10 km108152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km63
Distinct cuisines in the centre50113

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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. 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.