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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
The Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal, Venice
VeniceThe Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal

Photos: San Miguel de Allende by Russ Bowling, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Venice by David Vives, Pexels License.

San Miguel de Allende or Venice?

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

  • prices
  • wellness
  • nightlife

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

Choose Venice for

  • beaches
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Venice’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, Venice 56: Venice leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. San Miguel de Allende 62, Venice 60: San Miguel de Allende leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. San Miguel de Allende 62, Venice 94: Venice leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. San Miguel de Allende 38, Venice 27: San Miguel de Allende leads by 11 points.
Nature & outdoors. San Miguel de Allende 40, Venice 45: Venice leads by 5 points.
Day trips. San Miguel de Allende 77, Venice 86: Venice leads by 9 points.
Good for families. San Miguel de Allende 32, Venice 45: Venice leads by 13 points.
Getting around. San Miguel de Allende 48, Venice 68: Venice leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. San Miguel de Allende 55, Venice 57: Venice leads by 2 points.
Affordability. San Miguel de Allende 50, Venice 20: San Miguel de Allende leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. San Miguel de Allende 40, Venice 62: Venice leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. San Miguel de Allende 66, Venice 40: San Miguel de Allende leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: San Miguel de Allende and Venice.

Your match

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

San Miguel de Allende
48match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

Venice
Best match
55match

Wins on beaches and culture and sights 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

Venice in July

29 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
61 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
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.

Venice 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.

Venice's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Treviso / S. Angelo.

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). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Venezia / Tessera (6.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSan Miguel de AllendeVenice
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaItalian
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,900 m2 m
Main airportGuanajuato International Airport (BJX)77 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan Miguel de AllendeVenice
City population69,811250,369
People per km²-602
Museums within 10 km252
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 months

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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. 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.