VacationSelector

Mexico City or York?

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 nightlife and year-round weather with your weighting.

York
41
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

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 CityYork
Beaches & swimming. Mexico City and York are level on 0.
Mexico CityYork
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km42
Coast distance247 km50 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Mexico City leads by 12 points.12
Mexico CityYork
Score6654
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,179361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1531
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 33 points.33
Mexico CityYork
Score7946
Museums within 10 km13818
Museums within 2 km of centre6516
Share of museums within 2 km %4789
Unesco sites within 50 km62
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 35 points.35
Mexico CityYork
Score7843
Drinking venues within 4 km2,156450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre926353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4378
Nightclubs within 4 km19814
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 30 points.30
Mexico CityYork
Score6333
Protected land share 50 km %3017
Landscape blanket share 50 km %016
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km32 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. Mexico City leads by 7 points.7
Mexico CityYork
Score5043
Tourist attractions within 2 km2313
Park area within 2 km32 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km43
Sights concentration. Mexico City leads by 15 points.15
Mexico CityYork
Score5439
Notable places within 2 km8837
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 22 points.22
Mexico CityYork
Score7654
Price level global54.284.9
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 34 points.34
Mexico CityYork
Score9056
Monthly daytime high22.2 °C to 27.9 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 186 mm39 mm to 66 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
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Rainfall, mm
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Mexico City
8
8
9
8
8
6
6
6
5
6
7
7
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
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). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMexico CityYork
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
4 h 30 m
€367-420
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
CancunCUN
2 h 10 m
€123-162
MEX · 7 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
15 h 20 m
€1,089-1205
3 stops
MEX · 7 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
Las VegasLAS
3 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 40 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 104 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 CityYork
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaEnglish
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 999
Elevation2,240 m25 m
Main airportMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureMexico CityYork
City population9,209,944208,400
People per km²6,202766
Museums within 10 km10824
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km62
Distinct cuisines in the centre5054

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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. 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.