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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
Ushuaia below snow-capped mountains, Ushuaia
UshuaiaUshuaia below snow-capped mountains

Photos: San Miguel de Allende by Russ Bowling, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Ushuaia by Jan Tang, Pexels License.

San Miguel de Allende or Ushuaia?

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

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • wellness

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

Choose Ushuaia for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Ushuaia’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, Ushuaia 3: San Miguel de Allende leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. San Miguel de Allende 62, Ushuaia 40: San Miguel de Allende leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. San Miguel de Allende 62, Ushuaia 22: San Miguel de Allende leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. San Miguel de Allende 38, Ushuaia 18: San Miguel de Allende leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. San Miguel de Allende 40, Ushuaia 88: Ushuaia leads by 48 points.
Day trips. San Miguel de Allende 77, Ushuaia 14: San Miguel de Allende leads by 63 points.
Good for families. San Miguel de Allende 32, Ushuaia 40: Ushuaia leads by 8 points.
Getting around. San Miguel de Allende 48, Ushuaia 45: San Miguel de Allende leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. San Miguel de Allende 55, Ushuaia 22: San Miguel de Allende leads by 33 points.
Affordability. San Miguel de Allende 50, Ushuaia 42: San Miguel de Allende leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. San Miguel de Allende 40, Ushuaia 10: San Miguel de Allende leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. San Miguel de Allende 66, Ushuaia 26: San Miguel de Allende leads by 40 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: San Miguel de Allende and Ushuaia.

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 day trips and culture and sights with your weighting.

Ushuaia
31match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and families 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

Ushuaia in July

4 °Cdaytime high
0 °Cnight-time low
36 mmrain in the month
2 hsunshine a day
8 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). Ushuaia: 1991-2020 normals, Ushuaia Aerodrome (1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSan Miguel de AllendeUshuaia
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaSpanish
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Argentine Peso (ARS)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-3
Emergency number911117 or 911
Elevation1,900 m23 m
Main airportGuanajuato International Airport (BJX)77 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsUshuaia - Malvinas Argentinas International Airport (USH)4 km from centre9 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan Miguel de AllendeUshuaia
City population69,81182,615
People per km²-3,592
Museums within 10 km25
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20

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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. 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.