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The Metropolitan Cathedral on the Zócalo, Mexico City
Mexico CityThe Metropolitan Cathedral on the Zócalo
Palms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue, West Palm Beach
West Palm BeachPalms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue

Photos: Mexico City by Oscar Dominguez, Pexels License; West Palm Beach by Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Mexico City or West Palm Beach?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Mexico City for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Mexico City’s own page.

Choose West Palm Beach for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on West Palm Beach’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Mexico City 5, West Palm Beach 80: West Palm Beach leads by 75 points.
Food & drink. Mexico City 90, West Palm Beach 52: Mexico City leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Mexico City 88, West Palm Beach 42: Mexico City leads by 46 points.
Nightlife. Mexico City 80, West Palm Beach 36: Mexico City leads by 44 points.
Nature & outdoors. Mexico City 50, West Palm Beach 58: West Palm Beach leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Mexico City 75, West Palm Beach 55: Mexico City leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Mexico City 58, West Palm Beach 66: West Palm Beach leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Mexico City 50, West Palm Beach 38: Mexico City leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Mexico City 76, West Palm Beach 64: Mexico City leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Mexico City 75, West Palm Beach 23: Mexico City leads by 52 points.
Live music & performing arts. Mexico City 72, West Palm Beach 47: Mexico City leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Mexico City 40, West Palm Beach 44: West Palm Beach leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Mexico City and West Palm Beach.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Mexico City
Best match
63match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
50match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Mexico City in July

25 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
176 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

West Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Mexico CityWest Palm Beach

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMexico CityWest Palm Beach
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya-
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation2,240 m6 m
Main airportMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre109 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMexico CityWest Palm Beach
City population9,209,944117,415
People per km²6,202786
Museums within 10 km1084
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.