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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 red cable car above Wellington, Wellington
WellingtonThe red cable car above Wellington

Photos: San Miguel de Allende by Russ Bowling, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Wellington by lumoplank, CC0.

San Miguel de Allende or Wellington?

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
  • wellness
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Wellington for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Wellington’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, Wellington 33: Wellington leads by 29 points.
Food & drink. San Miguel de Allende and Wellington are level on 62.
Culture & sights. San Miguel de Allende 62, Wellington 44: San Miguel de Allende leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. San Miguel de Allende 38, Wellington 45: Wellington leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. San Miguel de Allende 40, Wellington 78: Wellington leads by 38 points.
Day trips. San Miguel de Allende 77, Wellington 40: San Miguel de Allende leads by 37 points.
Good for families. San Miguel de Allende 32, Wellington 62: Wellington leads by 30 points.
Getting around. San Miguel de Allende 48, Wellington 68: Wellington leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. San Miguel de Allende 55, Wellington 42: San Miguel de Allende leads by 13 points.
Affordability. San Miguel de Allende 50, Wellington 33: San Miguel de Allende leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. San Miguel de Allende 40, Wellington 56: Wellington leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. San Miguel de Allende 66, Wellington 30: San Miguel de Allende leads by 36 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: San Miguel de Allende and Wellington.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

San Miguel de Allende
48match

Wins on day trips and wellness with your weighting.

Wellington
49match

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

Wellington in July

12 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
111 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
10 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.

Wellington's sunshine is measured 47 km from the centre, at Paraparaumu Aerodrome.

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). Wellington: 1961-1990 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Wellington Aerodrome Aws (5.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSan Miguel de AllendeWellington
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaEnglish, New Zealand Sign Language, Māori
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)New Zealand Dollar (NZD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+12, UTC+13 in summer
Emergency number911111
Elevation1,900 m0 m
Main airportGuanajuato International Airport (BJX)77 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsWellington International Airport (WLG)5 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan Miguel de AllendeWellington
City population69,811216,200
People per km²-487
Museums within 10 km212
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

Where else could you go?

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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.