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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
Victoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter, Victoria Falls
Victoria FallsVictoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter

Photos: San Miguel de Allende by Russ Bowling, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Victoria Falls by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

San Miguel de Allende or Victoria Falls?

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
  • food and drink

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

Choose Victoria Falls for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Victoria Falls’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, Victoria Falls 7: Victoria Falls leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. San Miguel de Allende 62, Victoria Falls 24: San Miguel de Allende leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. San Miguel de Allende 62, Victoria Falls 12: San Miguel de Allende leads by 50 points.
Nightlife. San Miguel de Allende 38, Victoria Falls 8: San Miguel de Allende leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. San Miguel de Allende 40, Victoria Falls 94: Victoria Falls leads by 54 points.
Day trips. San Miguel de Allende 77, Victoria Falls 22: San Miguel de Allende leads by 55 points.
Good for families. San Miguel de Allende 32, Victoria Falls 38: Victoria Falls leads by 6 points.
Getting around. San Miguel de Allende 48, Victoria Falls 45: San Miguel de Allende leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. San Miguel de Allende 55, Victoria Falls 18: San Miguel de Allende leads by 37 points.
Affordability. San Miguel de Allende 50, Victoria Falls 32: San Miguel de Allende leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. San Miguel de Allende 40, Victoria Falls 10: San Miguel de Allende leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. San Miguel de Allende 66, Victoria Falls 34: San Miguel de Allende leads by 32 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: San Miguel de Allende and Victoria Falls.

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.

Victoria Falls
29match

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

Victoria Falls in July

26 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
11 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). Victoria Falls: 1991-2020 normals, Livingstone (13.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSan Miguel de AllendeVictoria Falls
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaEnglish, Xhosa, Ndau, Venda, Chewa, Khoisan, Kalanga, Shona, Tonga, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Northern Ndebele, Nambya, Zimbabwe Sign Language, Barwe
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Zimbabwe Gold (ZWG)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+2
Emergency number911999
Elevation1,900 m961 m
Main airportGuanajuato International Airport (BJX)77 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsVictoria Falls International Airport (VFA)18 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan Miguel de AllendeVictoria Falls
City population69,81133,060
Museums within 10 km22
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.