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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
Gastown, Vancouver
VancouverGastown

Photos: San Miguel de Allende by Russ Bowling, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Vancouver by Xicotencatl, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

San Miguel de Allende or Vancouver?

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
  • prices
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Vancouver for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Vancouver’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, Vancouver 42: Vancouver leads by 38 points.
Food & drink. San Miguel de Allende 62, Vancouver 72: Vancouver leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. San Miguel de Allende 62, Vancouver 42: San Miguel de Allende leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. San Miguel de Allende 38, Vancouver 42: Vancouver leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. San Miguel de Allende 40, Vancouver 97: Vancouver leads by 57 points.
Day trips. San Miguel de Allende 77, Vancouver 45: San Miguel de Allende leads by 32 points.
Good for families. San Miguel de Allende 32, Vancouver 72: Vancouver leads by 40 points.
Getting around. San Miguel de Allende 48, Vancouver 73: Vancouver leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. San Miguel de Allende and Vancouver are level on 55.
Affordability. San Miguel de Allende 50, Vancouver 27: San Miguel de Allende leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. San Miguel de Allende 40, Vancouver 52: Vancouver leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. San Miguel de Allende 66, Vancouver 50: San Miguel de Allende leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: San Miguel de Allende and Vancouver.

Your match

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

San Miguel de Allende
48match

Wins on day trips and prices with your weighting.

Vancouver
Best match
56match

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
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Vancouver in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
42 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
16 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). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSan Miguel de AllendeVancouver
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaFrench, English
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation1,900 m2 m
Main airportGuanajuato International Airport (BJX)77 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan Miguel de AllendeVancouver
City population69,811662,248
People per km²-5,759
Museums within 10 km226
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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