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Mexico City or Warsaw?

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

Warsaw
60
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 CityWarsaw
Beaches & swimming. Mexico City and Warsaw are level on 0.
Mexico CityWarsaw
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km426
Coast distance247 km238 km
Water distance——
Places to eat. Warsaw leads by 6 points.6
Mexico CityWarsaw
Score6672
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,1791,222
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1534
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 16 points.16
Mexico CityWarsaw
Score7963
Museums within 10 km138107
Museums within 2 km of centre6560
Share of museums within 2 km %4756
Unesco sites within 50 km61
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 16 points.16
Mexico CityWarsaw
Score7862
Drinking venues within 4 km2,1561,005
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre926648
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4364
Nightclubs within 4 km198104
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 8 points.8
Mexico CityWarsaw
Score6355
Protected land share 50 km %3027
Landscape blanket share 50 km %019
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km32 hectares107 hectares
Good for families. Warsaw leads by 20 points.20
Mexico CityWarsaw
Score5070
Tourist attractions within 2 km2342
Park area within 2 km32 hectares107 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km45
Sights concentration. Warsaw leads by 22 points.22
Mexico CityWarsaw
Score5476
Notable places within 2 km88299
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Warsaw leads by 3 points.3
Mexico CityWarsaw
Score7679
Price level global54.249
Daily budget—€133
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 31 points.31
Mexico CityWarsaw
Score9059
Monthly daytime high22.2 °C to 27.9 °C0.9 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 186 mm29 mm to 83 mm
Dry months66
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
Warsaw
1
3
7
15
20
23
25
25
19
13
7
2
Rainfall, mm
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Warsaw
31
29
29
36
56
63
83
63
50
40
36
37
Daylight, hours per day
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Warsaw
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Mexico City
8
8
9
8
8
6
6
6
5
6
7
7
Warsaw
1
2
5
8
9
11
11
10
8
5
2
1

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). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMexico CityWarsaw
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
CancunCUN
2 h 10 m
€123-162
MEX · 7 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 55 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
4 h 30 m
€367-420
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
8 h 50 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
15 h 20 m
€1,089-1205
3 stops
MEX · 7 km
8 h 50 m
no fares
WAW · 8 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 CityWarsaw
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaPolish
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,240 m118 m
Main airportMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMexico CityWarsaw
City population9,209,9441,862,402
People per km²6,2023,601
Museums within 10 km108117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km61
Distinct cuisines in the centre5076

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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.