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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 Hofburg and Heldenplatz, Vienna
ViennaThe Hofburg and Heldenplatz

Photos: San Miguel de Allende by Russ Bowling, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Vienna by C.Stadler/Bwag, CC BY-SA 3.0 AT, cropped.

San Miguel de Allende or Vienna?

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
  • prices
  • day trips

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

Choose Vienna for

  • live music and the arts
  • families
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Vienna’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, Vienna 27: Vienna leads by 23 points.
Food & drink. San Miguel de Allende 62, Vienna 68: Vienna leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. San Miguel de Allende 62, Vienna 89: Vienna leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. San Miguel de Allende 38, Vienna 50: Vienna leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. San Miguel de Allende 40, Vienna 62: Vienna leads by 22 points.
Day trips. San Miguel de Allende 77, Vienna 74: San Miguel de Allende leads by 3 points.
Good for families. San Miguel de Allende 32, Vienna 77: Vienna leads by 45 points.
Getting around. San Miguel de Allende 48, Vienna 90: Vienna leads by 42 points.
Shopping & style. San Miguel de Allende 55, Vienna 62: Vienna leads by 7 points.
Affordability. San Miguel de Allende 50, Vienna 44: San Miguel de Allende leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. San Miguel de Allende 40, Vienna 96: Vienna leads by 56 points.
Wellness & relaxation. San Miguel de Allende 66, Vienna 58: San Miguel de Allende leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: San Miguel de Allende and Vienna.

Your match

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

San Miguel de Allende
48match

Wins on wellness and prices with your weighting.

Vienna
Best match
66match

Wins on live music and the arts 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

Vienna in July

27 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
78 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
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). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSan Miguel de AllendeVienna
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaGerman, Austrian Sign Language
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 m151 m
Main airportGuanajuato International Airport (BJX)77 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre202 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan Miguel de AllendeVienna
City population69,8112,028,289
People per km²-4,890
Museums within 10 km2152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23

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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.