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Mexico

80 cities in the atlas · 59 airports with scheduled flights

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Photo: Alejandro Islas Photograph AC · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Capital: Mexico City
Currency: MXN; Mexican Peso
Local time: Central Standard TimeUTC-06:00; 5 more
Calling code: +52
Driving: On the right
Plugs: Type A and B

Facts

Mexico in figures

From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.

Capital: Mexico City
Currency: Mexican Peso MXNToday's indicative rate: MXN 10 ≈ USD 0.542Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
Languages: Official: SpanishSpoken: Spanish
Time zones: Mexican Pacific Standard TimeUTC-07:00Pacific Daylight TimeUTC-07:00Central Standard TimeUTC-06:00Mountain Daylight TimeUTC-06:00Eastern Standard TimeUTC-05:00Central Daylight TimeUTC-05:00
Calling code: +52
Driving: On the right
Plugs: Type A and B127 V · 60 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
Emergency numbers: 911general emergencyAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
Population: 131,946,900 (2025, World Bank)
Area: 1,972,550 km²
Internet domain: .mx
Land borders: Belize Guatemala United States

When to go

Climate across Mexico

In October to May, more than half of the 56 cities with figures in Mexico have a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain.

Mild to warm and dry
Mild to warm, humid or showery
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Cool
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The main cities, month by month
City	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
Mexico City	18°	21°	23°	25°	25°	23°	21°	20°	19°	19°	19°	18°
Guadalajara	23°	26°	29°	31°	33°	29°	25°	25°	25°	25°	25°	24°
Monterrey	18°	21°	24°	28°	30°	30°	29°	28°	25°	24°	21°	19°
Tijuana	17°	17°	19°	20°	22°	25°	29°	29°	28°	25°	21°	17°
Acapulco de Juárez	29°	30°	31°	32°	31°	29°	29°	28°	27°	28°	28°	29°
Cancún	26°	27°	28°	29°	30°	30°	30°	30°	30°	29°	27°	27°
Puebla	21°	24°	26°	28°	28°	25°	24°	23°	22°	22°	22°	21°
Zapopan	23°	26°	29°	31°	33°	29°	25°	25°	25°	25°	25°	24°
Oaxaca	22°	25°	27°	29°	27°	23°	22°	22°	21°	21°	20°	21°
Ciudad Juárez	13°	17°	22°	26°	31°	36°	35°	34°	31°	26°	19°	13°
Cities good for going, of 56	52	53	54	40	32	28	13	15	26	45	53	52

Mean daily highs, modelled for an area about 50 km across: NASA POWER climatology, 2001–2020. A cell's swatch says what the month is like (key above).

On the map

Where Mexico is

The dashed box is the extent of the country's main landmass, from Natural Earth; outlying islands fall outside it. The dots are the cities with pages of their own.

Land borders

Cities

Cities in Mexico

All 80 places in the atlas: capitals, cities of 300,000 people or more, the places its airports serve, and the ones we have written guides to.

More cities · 26

Smaller places with an airport · 24

Airports

Airports in Mexico

Airports with scheduled flights and an IATA code, from OurAirports.

Large airports

Medium airports · 30

Photographs

Mexico in pictures

Photographs from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its author, with its licence.

Mexico City
Photo: Gobierno CDMX · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Guadalajara
Photo: Isacdaavid · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Guides

Our guides in Mexico

Visas and entry

Entry rules depend on your passport and change often, so this page does not state them. Check the destination government's official immigration website, or ask our visa desk to check your case for you.

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Plan it

Plan a trip to Mexico

Tell us where in Mexico, when and who is travelling, and a person puts the flights, the stays and the rest into one quote.

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Sources for this page

All sources and licences

OurAirports — Airport data from OurAirports (ourairports.com), public domain.
NASA POWER (Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources), Climatology API v2 — These data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) POWER Project funded through the NASA Earth Science/Applied Science Program.
Wikidata — Facts from Wikidata (wikidata.org), CC0.
Wikimedia Commons — Each photograph's author and licence are printed beside it.
Natural Earth v5.1.2, 1:10m admin-0 map units — Made with Natural Earth. Licence: Public domain
World Bank, World Development Indicators: Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL) — Population: World Bank, World Development Indicators (SP.POP.TOTL), CC BY 4.0.