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A cobbled street of painted houses in the old town, San Miguel de Allende
San Miguel de AllendeA cobbled street of painted houses in the old town
Puente de San Martín over the Tagus, Toledo
ToledoPuente de San Martín over the Tagus

Photos: San Miguel de Allende by Russ Bowling, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Toledo by Ввласенко, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

San Miguel de Allende or Toledo?

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 San Miguel de Allende for

  • wellness
  • shopping
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on San Miguel de Allende’s own page.

Choose Toledo for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Toledo’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. San Miguel de Allende 4, Toledo 5: Toledo leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. San Miguel de Allende 62, Toledo 40: San Miguel de Allende leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. San Miguel de Allende 62, Toledo 79: Toledo leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. San Miguel de Allende 38, Toledo 22: San Miguel de Allende leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. San Miguel de Allende and Toledo are level on 40.
Day trips. San Miguel de Allende 77, Toledo 78: Toledo leads by 1 points.
Good for families. San Miguel de Allende 32, Toledo 45: Toledo leads by 13 points.
Getting around. San Miguel de Allende 48, Toledo 64: Toledo leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. San Miguel de Allende 55, Toledo 32: San Miguel de Allende leads by 23 points.
Affordability. San Miguel de Allende 50, Toledo 58: Toledo leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. San Miguel de Allende 40, Toledo 22: San Miguel de Allende leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. San Miguel de Allende 66, Toledo 30: San Miguel de Allende leads by 36 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: San Miguel de Allende and Toledo.

Your match

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

San Miguel de Allende
Best match
48match

Wins on wellness and shopping with your weighting.

Toledo
43match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

San Miguel de Allende in July

29 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
132 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
13 hdaylight a day

Toledo in July

35 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
6 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

San Miguel de Allende's temperatures are measured 54 km from the centre, at Guanajuato, Gto..

San Miguel de Allende has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. San Miguel de Allende: 1991-2020 normals, Guanajuato, Gto. (53.7 km from centre). Toledo: 1991-2020 normals, Toledo (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSan Miguel de AllendeToledo
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaSpanish
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,900 m523 m
Main airportGuanajuato International Airport (BJX)77 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)80 km from centre239 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan Miguel de AllendeToledo
City population69,81187,216
People per km²-376
Museums within 10 km213
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22

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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. 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.

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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.