VacationSelector

Mexico City or Zurich?

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 value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

Zurich
44
match

Wins on sights concentration and places to eat 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 CityZurich
Beaches & swimming. Mexico City and Zurich are level on 0.
Mexico CityZurich
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km423
Coast distance247 km632 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Zurich leads by 1 points.1
Mexico CityZurich
Score6667
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,179974
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1530
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 23 points.23
Mexico CityZurich
Score7956
Museums within 10 km13876
Museums within 2 km of centre6537
Share of museums within 2 km %4749
Unesco sites within 50 km61
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 24 points.24
Mexico CityZurich
Score7854
Drinking venues within 4 km2,156676
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre926553
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4382
Nightclubs within 4 km19874
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 26 points.26
Mexico CityZurich
Score6337
Protected land share 50 km %3016
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km32 hectares48 hectares
Good for families. Mexico City leads by 14 points.14
Mexico CityZurich
Score5036
Tourist attractions within 2 km238
Park area within 2 km32 hectares48 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Zurich leads by 5 points.5
Mexico CityZurich
Score5459
Notable places within 2 km88119
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 41 points.41
Mexico CityZurich
Score7635
Price level global54.2110.5
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 37 points.37
Mexico CityZurich
Score9053
Monthly daytime high22.2 °C to 27.9 °C3.6 °C to 24.3 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 186 mm60 mm to 128 mm
Dry months60
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
Zurich
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Rainfall, mm
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Zurich
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Daylight, hours per day
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Zurich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Mexico City
8
8
9
8
8
6
6
6
5
6
7
7
Zurich
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
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). Zurich: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (2.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMexico CityZurich
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
1 h 40 m
€114-151
ZRH · 9 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 50 m
€259-271
MEX · 7 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
CancunCUN
2 h 10 m
€123-162
MEX · 7 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
14 h 5 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 9 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
MadridMAD
11 h 20 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
3 h 5 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 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 CityZurich
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,240 m408 m
Main airportMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)9 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureMexico CityZurich
City population9,209,944452,421
People per km²6,2025,147
Museums within 10 km10863
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km61
Distinct cuisines in the centre5078

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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.