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title: "Top 10 Things To Do in Mexico City, Mexico | Wimup"
description: "The 10 best things to do in Mexico City, ranked: the anthropology museum, the Zócalo, Templo Mayor, Teotihuacán, Casa Azul and Xochimilco, plus restaurants, markets, cantinas, day trips and the dates worth planning around."
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updated: 2026-10-18
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# Top 10 Things To Do in Mexico City

Mexico City, Mexico · North America · By Wimup Editorial, 16 min read

Mexico City is built on a drained lake and on the ruins of the Mexica capital that stood in it, which is why the Templo Mayor sits half-excavated a hundred metres from the cathedral and the whole centre tilts. Around 22 million people, 170 museums, and neighbourhoods built at a scale you can walk.

## Quick answer

The best things to do in Mexico City are the Museo Nacional de Antropología, the Zócalo and the Rivera murals, the Templo Mayor, the pyramids at Teotihuacán and Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul, with a Sunday on the Xochimilco canals to close it. Give it four or five days, take the first slowly at 2,240 metres, and use the Metro.

## Quick facts

- **Best months:** Mar · Apr · Nov
- **Ideal length:** 4 to 5 days
- **Budget per day:** $70–150
- **Language:** Spanish
- **Getting around:** Metro, Metrobús and ride-hailing apps
- **Tourism board:** [Official site](https://mexicocity.cdmx.gob.mx/?lang=en&utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

## The 10 best things to do in Mexico City

### 1. Give a full morning to the Museo Nacional de Antropología

Museum · Av. Paseo de la Reforma s/n, Bosque de Chapultepec I Secc, Miguel Hidalgo, 11560 Mexico City

The reason many people fly here. Ramírez Vázquez's 1964 building runs Mesoamerican archaeology hall by hall, with the Sun Stone in the Mexica room. Go early, do the ground floor properly, and accept that you will not see all of it.

- **Time:** 3 to 4 hr
- **Cost:** Paid entry, free on Sundays for residents
- **Best at:** Tuesday to Friday at opening
- **Tip:** Do the Mexica and Maya halls first, before the school groups arrive

Links: [Website](https://www.mna.inah.gob.mx/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

### 2. Stand in the Zócalo and read the Rivera murals inside the Palacio Nacional

Landmark · Plaza de la Constitución s/n, Centro Histórico, Cuauhtémoc, 06000 Mexico City

One of the largest city squares in the world, with a cathedral visibly sinking into the old lakebed on one side and Rivera's staircase mural on the other. Palace entry is free with photo ID but depends on official use, so check before you go.

- **Time:** 2 to 3 hr
- **Cost:** Free, identification required for the Palacio Nacional
- **Best at:** Weekday mornings
- **Tip:** The flag-lowering ceremony at dusk is worth timing an evening around

### 3. Walk the Templo Mayor excavation, a hundred metres from the cathedral

Museum · Seminario 8, Centro Histórico, Cuauhtémoc, 06060 Mexico City

Electricity workers hit an eight-tonne carved disc here in 1978, and the block above the main pyramid of Tenochtitlan was cleared to expose it. A raised path crosses seven construction stages. The clearest view of what the centre stands on.

- **Time:** 2 hr
- **Cost:** Paid entry, free on Sundays for residents
- **Best at:** Late morning, once the light is over the site
- **Tip:** The museum and the open-air site are one ticket, so leave time for both

Links: [Website](https://www.inah.gob.mx/museos/museo-de-sitio-del-templo-mayor?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

### 4. Climb the avenue of the dead at Teotihuacán

Archaeology · Zona Arqueológica de Teotihuacán, Carretera Ecatepec-Pirámides km 22, 55800 San Juan Teotihuacán, State of Mexico

Fifty kilometres north-east, and a millennium older than the Mexica, who found it abandoned and named it the place where the gods were born. A two-kilometre ceremonial axis with the Pyramid of the Sun on it. Climbing is sometimes restricted, so check first.

- **Time:** Half a day to a full day
- **Cost:** Paid entry at the gate
- **Best at:** At opening, before the heat and the coaches
- **Tip:** Go in by Gate 1 or 2, take water, a hat and cash for the entry

Links: [Website](https://visitateotihuacan.inah.gob.mx/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

### 5. Book ahead for the Casa Azul and walk the rest of Coyoacán

Museum · Londres 247, Del Carmen, Coyoacán, 04100 Mexico City

Frida Kahlo was born, lived and died in this house, still furnished as a home down to the wheelchair at the easel. Tickets are timed, sold only on the museum's own site and gone weeks ahead: the one booking to make before you fly.

- **Time:** 1.5 to 2 hr
- **Cost:** Timed ticket, book online in advance
- **Best at:** Weekday first slot
- **Tip:** Buy only from the museum site, then give the afternoon to the Coyoacán market

Links: [Website](https://www.museofridakahlo.org.mx/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

### 6. Take a trajinera through the Xochimilco canals

Nature · Embarcadero Nuevo Nativitas, Xochimilco, 16070 Mexico City

What is left of the lake the Mexica farmed, with chinampas still worked between the canals. Hire a flat-bottomed trajinera by the hour at an official embarcadero. Sundays are a party; a weekday morning is herons and working plots.

- **Time:** 2 to 4 hr
- **Cost:** Boat hire by the hour, agree the rate first
- **Best at:** Weekday morning for calm, Sunday for the party
- **Tip:** Use an official embarcadero, and confirm the hourly rate and the return time before you board

Links: [Website](https://mexicocity.cdmx.gob.mx/venues/canales-de-xochimilco-trajineras/?lang=en&utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

### 7. Look down the length of Reforma from Chapultepec Castle

Landmark · Bosque de Chapultepec I Secc, Miguel Hidalgo, 11100 Mexico City

The only castle in the Americas to have housed actual sovereigns, and the national history museum since 1944. Come for the terraces: the view runs straight down Reforma across the whole city, and the Alcázar gardens sit on the roof.

- **Time:** 2 hr
- **Cost:** Paid entry, free on Sundays for residents
- **Best at:** Tuesday to Sunday, mid-morning
- **Tip:** The walk up the hill is steep, so allow fifteen minutes from the park gate

Links: [Website](https://mnh.inah.gob.mx/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

### 8. See the Palacio de Bellas Artes for the murals, then for a performance

Landmark · Av. Juárez s/n, Centro Histórico, Cuauhtémoc, 06050 Mexico City

An Art Deco interior inside an Art Nouveau shell, and upstairs a mural museum holding Rivera's recreation of the Rockefeller Center piece New York destroyed. Buy a ticket to a performance: the Tiffany glass curtain is only lowered for one.

- **Time:** 1.5 to 2 hr
- **Cost:** Paid entry to the mural museum
- **Best at:** Tuesday to Sunday
- **Tip:** The café on the eighth floor of the Sears building opposite has the standard photograph of the dome

Links: [Website](https://palacio.inba.gob.mx/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

### 9. Take a Friday night at the lucha libre in Arena México

Nightlife · Dr. Lavista 189, Doctores, Cuauhtémoc, 06720 Mexico City

Arena México is the cathedral of lucha libre, sixteen thousand seats and a crowd that treats it as theatre with a scoreboard. Friday is the main card. Sit a few rows back, and take a taxi to the door rather than walking after.

- **Time:** 3 hr
- **Cost:** Paid ticket, cheapest at the arena box office
- **Best at:** Friday night
- **Tip:** Photography rules change by promoter, so ask before you bring a camera

### 10. Walk up to the Basílica de Guadalupe on Tepeyac hill

Landmark · Plaza de las Américas 1, Villa de Guadalupe, Gustavo A. Madero, 07050 Mexico City

The most visited Catholic shrine in the world after St Peter's. The old basilica tilted as the ground sank, so a circular concrete tent went up beside it in 1976, with moving walkways to keep the queue past the cloak going.

- **Time:** 2 hr
- **Cost:** Free
- **Best at:** Early morning, any day but 12 December unless that is the point
- **Tip:** Metro La Villa-Basílica on Line 6 puts you two blocks from the gate

Links: [Website](https://virgendeguadalupe.org.mx/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

## Best restaurants in Mexico City

Eight kitchens, from two of the best tasting menus in Latin America to a century-old dining room off the Zócalo.

1. **Pujol** (Modern Mexican, tasting menu · Polanco): Enrique Olvera's room, and the restaurant that changed how the world reads Mexican cooking. The mole madre has been fed and re-cooked for years. Book far ahead. [Website](https://pujol.com.mx/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
2. **Quintonil** (Modern Mexican, tasting menu · Polanco): The quieter of the two great tasting rooms, more vegetable-driven, with a garden supplying part of the menu. Book as far ahead as Pujol. [Website](https://quintonil.com/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
3. **Contramar** (Seafood, lunch only · Roma Norte): The city's long lunch since 1998. Tuna tostadas and pescado a la talla. Lunchtime only, full by two, and loud in the right way.
4. **Rosetta** (Italian technique, Mexican produce · Roma Norte): Elena Reygadas cooks Italian structures with Mexican ingredients in a Porfirian townhouse. Her bakery down the street sells the guava rolls.
5. **Máximo** (Bistro, market-led menu · Roma Norte): A short menu that changes with what the growers send, French in method and Mexican in produce. One of the most reliable tables in the city.
6. **El Cardenal** (Traditional Mexican, breakfast · Centro Histórico): The breakfast institution of the centre. Order the chocolate whipped at the table and the nata with sweet bread. Weekends mean a wait.
7. **Nicos** (Mexican home cooking since 1957 · Clavería): A case for Mexican home cooking as serious food: 1940s recipes, native corn, a salsa cart. Worth the ride out of the tourist ring.
8. **Expendio de Maíz Sin Nombre** (No menu, native corn · Roma Norte): No sign, no menu, no set price. They cook whatever came in that morning on native corn masa until you say stop. Walk-in, so go early.

## Best street food and markets in Mexico City

Six counters and trading floors, including the taco stand that took a Michelin star in the guide's first Mexican edition.

1. **Mercado de San Juan** (Specialist produce market · Centro Histórico): The chefs' market: hams, cheeses, game, seafood and insects by the cup. Several stalls build sandwiches from what is on the counter.
2. **Mercado de La Merced** (The city's largest public market · Merced Balbuena): Several hectares of chillies, moles, herbs and prepared food. Go in the morning, and eat at a stand where the queue is local.
3. **Mercado de Coyoacán** (Tostadas and prepared food · Coyoacán): A neighbourhood market whose tostada counters are a destination: crab, ceviche, tinga, eaten standing. Go before two.
4. **Taquería El Califa de León** (Michelin-starred taco stand · San Rafael): A counter for a handful of people, and the first taco stand anywhere to take a Michelin star, in 2024. Four beef tacos on the menu. Cash.
5. **Tacos Los Cocuyos** (Late-night suadero and offal · Centro Histórico): A cauldron of simmering beef on a pavement corner near the Zócalo, open into the small hours. Suadero for a first visit.
6. **El Turix** (Yucatecan cochinita pibil · Polanco): A narrow Yucatecan counter in the most expensive neighbourhood, selling cochinita pibil for a fraction of what its neighbours charge. Cash only.

## Best museums in Mexico City

Eight more rooms beyond the top 10, from the national art collection to a house that is itself a UNESCO site.

1. **Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL)** (Mexican art, 16th century to 1954 · Centro Histórico): The national art collection in a Porfirian palace, chronological from the viceroyalty on. Velasco's views of the valley are the reason to come. [Website](https://munal.mx/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
2. **Museo Soumaya** (Private collection, free entry · Plaza Carso, Granada): Slim's collection in a hexagon-tiled shell, with one of the largest Rodin holdings outside France. Free, and best walked top down. [Website](https://www.museosoumaya.org/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
3. **Museo Jumex** (Contemporary art · Granada, Polanco): The most serious contemporary programme in the country, in a Chipperfield building across the plaza from the Soumaya. Check the temporary show. [Website](https://www.fundacionjumex.org/en/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
4. **Museo Tamayo** (Modern and contemporary art · Bosque de Chapultepec): Tamayo's international collection in a low concrete building inside Chapultepec: Picasso, Bacon, Warhol. Fifteen minutes from the anthropology museum.
5. **Museo de Arte Moderno** (20th-century Mexican art · Bosque de Chapultepec): Two circular pavilions of 1964 holding the twentieth-century canon, including Las dos Fridas. The sculpture garden is free to walk.
6. **Museo Anahuacalli** (Rivera's pre-Hispanic collection · Coyoacán): Rivera's windowless volcanic-stone pyramid, built to hold the fifty thousand pre-Hispanic pieces he collected. The quietest major museum here. [Website](https://museoanahuacalli.org.mx/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
7. **MUAC** (University contemporary art museum · Ciudad Universitaria): The university's contemporary museum on the UNAM campus, itself a World Heritage Site. Pair it with the O'Gorman library mosaic.
8. **Casa Luis Barragán** (Architect's house, UNESCO site · Ampliación Daniel Garza): Barragán's own house of 1948 behind a blank street wall, and the clearest lesson in what he did with colour and light. Book: small timed groups.

## Best cantinas and mezcalerías in Mexico City

Six rooms for a drink, from a mariachi hall on Garibaldi to a cocktail bar that has spent years on the world's best lists.

1. **Salón Tenampa** (Mariachi hall, since 1925 · Plaza Garibaldi): The room that made Plaza Garibaldi the home of mariachi, open since 1925. Bands play at the tables for a fee agreed per song.
2. **Bar La Ópera** (Cantina, since 1876 · Centro Histórico): Carved mahogany, gilt ceilings, and a bullet hole the staff attribute to Pancho Villa. Serving since 1876, and the easiest cantina to start with.
3. **Bósforo** (Mezcal, no signage · Centro Histórico): An unmarked door near the Alameda and a list of small-batch mezcals. Say what you want it to taste like and let them pick.
4. **La Clandestina** (Mezcalería · Condesa): A small Condesa mezcalería pouring wild and cultivated agaves by the copita, with staff who explain provenance without ceremony.
5. **Licorería Limantour** (Cocktail bar · Roma Norte): The bar that put the city on the cocktail map. The Margarita Al Pastor is the signature. Small, and hard to walk into after nine.
6. **Cantina Tío Pepe** (Cantina, 19th century · Centro Histórico): One of the oldest cantinas still working in the centre: swing doors, tiled floor, botanas with the drinks, nothing styled for visitors.

## Best parks and gardens in Mexico City

Five green places, from one of the largest city parks in the hemisphere to a nursery you can walk barefoot in.

1. **Bosque de Chapultepec** (Four sections, museums and a lake · Miguel Hidalgo): The city's great park and one of the largest in the hemisphere, holding the anthropology museum, the castle and two art museums. Sunday is family day.
2. **Parque México** (Art Deco park, 1927 · Condesa): Laid out inside a former racecourse oval, which is why Condesa curves. Pure 1927 Art Deco down to the lamp posts.
3. **Alameda Central** (The oldest public park in the Americas · Centro Histórico): Laid out in 1592 and the oldest public park on the continent, though its benches read nineteenth century. Between Bellas Artes and the Rivera mural museum.
4. **Viveros de Coyoacán** (Working tree nursery and running track · Coyoacán): A working nursery from 1901 that doubles as the city's pleasantest running loop. Free, shaded, a short walk from the Casa Azul.
5. **Bosque de Tlalpan** (Volcanic scrub forest and trails · Tlalpan): A protected forest on the lava flow in the far south, with none of the manicure of the parks north. The altitude makes it a workout.

## Best neighborhoods in Mexico City

Six quarters worth walking, from the colonial grid on the old island to a village the city grew around.

1. **Centro Histórico** (UNESCO World Heritage since 1987 · Cuauhtémoc): The colonial grid laid over Tenochtitlan, and the densest concentration of things to see in the country. It empties in the evening off the main axes.
2. **Roma Norte** (Porfirian townhouses, restaurants and galleries · Cuauhtémoc): Built for the wealthy, wrecked in 1985, cheap for a generation, and now the address for restaurants and galleries. Flat and walkable.
3. **Condesa** (Art Deco, parks and pavement cafés · Cuauhtémoc): The streets curve because they follow a 1920s racecourse. Some of the best Art Deco in Latin America, and the pavement tables are the point.
4. **Coyoacán** (Colonial village, markets and museums · Coyoacán): Cortés based himself here, and the village kept its plazas and cobbles. The Casa Azul, the Trotsky house and the market are a full day.
5. **San Ángel** (Cobbled streets and Saturday art market · Álvaro Obregón): Another colonial village absorbed by the city, quieter than Coyoacán. The Bazar del Sábado fills Plaza San Jacinto every Saturday.
6. **Polanco** (Museums, luxury retail and Michelin kitchens · Miguel Hidalgo): The wealthy district north of Chapultepec, where Pujol, Quintonil, the Soumaya and the Jumex sit within a few blocks. Least characterful, most reasons to visit.

## Best day trips in Mexico City

Six runs out of the valley, from a colonial city of tiled facades to a silver town built into a ravine.

1. **Puebla and Cholula** (Colonial city, 2 hr by coach · Puebla state): A UNESCO colonial centre, the baroque Capilla del Rosario, and the birthplace of mole poblano. Cholula has the largest pyramid by volume anywhere.
2. **Tepoztlán** (Pueblo Mágico under a cliff, 1.5 hr · Morelos): A market town under a wall of rock, with a Dominican monastery and a steep hour's climb to the Tepozteco pyramid above.
3. **Taxco** (Silver town, 3 hr · Guerrero): A silver town poured down a ravine, white walls and stairs under the rose-stone church of Santa Prisca. The workshops sell silver by weight.
4. **Valle de Bravo** (Lake town, 2.5 hr · State of Mexico): A lakeside town in the pine hills west of the city: sailing, paragliding, cobbled streets. Monarch reserves are within reach in winter.
5. **Cuernavaca** (City of eternal spring, 1.5 hr · Morelos): Nine hundred metres lower and reliably warmer, which is why the wealthy have kept gardens here since the viceroyalty. A Rivera mural in the Palacio de Cortés.
6. **Tula** (Toltec capital, 1.5 hr · Hidalgo): The Toltec capital, and the four basalt Atlantes on top of the main pyramid. Far less visited than Teotihuacán, which is the argument for it.

## Festivals & annual events in Mexico City (2026)

- **Zona Maco** (Feb): Latin America's largest contemporary art fair, five days at the Centro Citibanamex in February.
- **Festival del Centro Histórico** (Mar): Two weeks of concerts and theatre in churches and courtyards that are otherwise closed. Much of it free.
- **Vive Latino** (Mar): The region's biggest rock and Latin alternative festival, a weekend in the Magdalena Mixhuca park.
- **Semana Santa in Iztapalapa** (Mar or Apr): A Passion play on the Cerro de la Estrella since 1843, walked by hundreds of thousands on Good Friday.
- **El Grito and Independence Day** (Sep): The president rings the bell on the night of 15 September to a full Zócalo, with a parade next morning.
- **Formula 1 Mexico City Grand Prix** (Oct): The Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez weekend, and one of the loudest on the calendar. Late October.
- **Día de Muertos and the parade** (Oct and Nov): 1 and 2 November for the graveyards and home altars, plus a Reforma parade first staged in 2016.
- **Día de la Virgen de Guadalupe** (Dec): 12 December, when several million pilgrims converge on the basilica, many arriving through the night.

## Must-try dishes in Mexico City, Mexico

- **Tacos al pastor**: Chilli and achiote pork off a vertical spit, with onion, coriander and a flick of pineapple. Best after dark.
- **Guajolota**: A tamal inside a bread roll, eaten standing at a Metro entrance. Carbohydrate on carbohydrate, and defended.
- **Tlacoyos**: A blue-corn masa oval stuffed with beans, topped with nopal, salsa and cheese. The best cheap breakfast here.
- **Barbacoa**: Lamb wrapped in maguey and pit-cooked overnight, with consomé. Sunday food, gone by early afternoon.
- **Esquites and elotes**: Corn in a cup or on the cob, with mayonnaise, lime, chilli and cheese. The cup is easier to walk with.
- **Quesadillas de huitlacoche**: A masa turnover filled with corn smut, tasting of mushroom and earth. Cheese or not is a real argument.
- **Pozole**: Hominy stew with pork or chicken, red, white or green, finished at the table with radish, oregano and lime.
- **Churros con chocolate**: Fried to order and dipped in thick chocolate. El Moro has done it since 1935, around the clock.

## Mexico City transport & airports

- **Benito Juárez International Airport** (MEX): The busiest in the country, five kilometres east and correspondingly congested. Terminals 1 and 2 are not walkable: use the Aerotrén or the shuttle. Metro Line 5 and Metrobús Line 4 both serve it. [Website](https://www.aicm.com.mx/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- **Felipe Ángeles International Airport** (NLU): Opened in 2022 to relieve Benito Juárez and now taking many domestic flights. Forty-five kilometres north, over an hour in traffic, so check which airport your ticket uses before booking a hotel. [Website](https://www.aifa.aero/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- **Metro and Metrobús** (5 and 6 pesos): Five pesos a ride, the cheapest serious transit anywhere, and it reaches almost everywhere. Metrobús is six, both on the Tarjeta de Movilidad Integrada. Front cars are for women and children at peak. [Website](https://www.metro.cdmx.gob.mx/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- **Taxis, ride-hailing and Ecobici** (App-first): Ride-hailing is the default; take street taxis only from an authorised sitio. Ecobici covers the centre, Roma and Condesa. Traffic peaks three to eight, when the Metro beats any car. [Website](https://ecobici.cdmx.gob.mx/en/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

## Mexico City at a glance

- **Country:** Mexico
- **Region:** Valley of Mexico, at 2,240 m above sea level
- **Population:** 9,209,944 in the city, about 21.8 million across the metropolitan area (2020 census)
- **Founded:** Tenochtitlan founded in 1325, refounded as the Spanish capital in 1521
- **Nickname:** CDMX, and the City of Palaces; residents are chilangos
- **Language:** Spanish
- **Currency:** Mexican peso (MXN)
- **Time zone:** UTC-6, no daylight saving since 2022
- **Calling code:** +52 55
- **Airports:** Benito Juárez (MEX) and Felipe Ángeles (NLU)
- **Power:** 127V, types A and B
- **Emergency:** 911 for all services

## Interesting facts

- The city is built on a drained lake and still sinking into it: parts of the east drop tens of centimetres a year as groundwater is pumped.
- At 2,240 metres this is one of the highest large cities in the world, so the first day feels heavy and alcohol lands faster.
- Roughly 170 museums operate here, one of the highest totals anywhere. The UNAM campus that houses MUAC is a World Heritage Site itself.
- The earthquakes of 19 September 1985 and 2017 fell on the same date, thirty-two years apart. A national drill is held every 19 September.
- Tacos al pastor descend from shawarma, brought by Lebanese families who swapped lamb for pork and flatbread for a tortilla.

## Watch

[Mexico City Travel Guide](https://wimup.com/watch/mexico-city.md), 8:28

## Mexico City travel FAQ

### How many days do you need in Mexico City?

Four to five. Two days cover the historic centre, the Zócalo, Templo Mayor, Bellas Artes and the murals. One covers Chapultepec, which means the anthropology museum and the castle. One takes Coyoacán, the Casa Azul and the south. The fifth buys Teotihuacán without rushing it, or a Sunday at Xochimilco.

### Is Mexico City safe for visitors?

The neighbourhoods most visitors use (Centro Histórico, Roma, Condesa, Polanco, Coyoacán) are busy and routinely walked at night, and the main risk is opportunistic theft. Use ride-hailing or authorised ranks, keep phones out of sight on the Metro, and check your government's advice for the states beyond the city.

### Does the altitude affect you?

It can. At 2,240 metres a normal day of walking feels harder, sleep is often broken on the first night, and drink hits sooner. Give the first day a light schedule, drink more water than you think you need, and leave a strenuous climb like Teotihuacán or the Tepozteco pyramid until you have been here a couple of days.

### When is the best time to visit Mexico City?

November to April is the dry season and the reliable window, with the jacarandas in flower through March and April. June to September brings rain most afternoons, usually a heavy couple of hours rather than a lost day. The temperature barely moves.

### Do you need to book the Frida Kahlo Museum in advance?

Yes. Entry to the Casa Azul is by timed ticket sold through the museum's own website, there is no reliable walk-up option, and slots regularly sell out weeks ahead in high season and around holidays. Book it as soon as your dates are fixed and plan the rest of the Coyoacán day around the time you are given.

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## Sources

- [Mexico City tourism board](https://mexicocity.cdmx.gob.mx/?lang=en&utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Give a full morning to the Museo Nacional de Antropología (official site)](https://www.mna.inah.gob.mx/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Walk the Templo Mayor excavation, a hundred metres from the cathedral (official site)](https://www.inah.gob.mx/museos/museo-de-sitio-del-templo-mayor?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Climb the avenue of the dead at Teotihuacán (official site)](https://visitateotihuacan.inah.gob.mx/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Book ahead for the Casa Azul and walk the rest of Coyoacán (official site)](https://www.museofridakahlo.org.mx/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Take a trajinera through the Xochimilco canals (official site)](https://mexicocity.cdmx.gob.mx/venues/canales-de-xochimilco-trajineras/?lang=en&utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Look down the length of Reforma from Chapultepec Castle (official site)](https://mnh.inah.gob.mx/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [See the Palacio de Bellas Artes for the murals, then for a performance (official site)](https://palacio.inba.gob.mx/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Walk up to the Basílica de Guadalupe on Tepeyac hill (official site)](https://virgendeguadalupe.org.mx/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Pujol (official site)](https://pujol.com.mx/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Quintonil (official site)](https://quintonil.com/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL) (official site)](https://munal.mx/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Museo Soumaya (official site)](https://www.museosoumaya.org/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Museo Jumex (official site)](https://www.fundacionjumex.org/en/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Museo Anahuacalli (official site)](https://museoanahuacalli.org.mx/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Benito Juárez International Airport (official site)](https://www.aicm.com.mx/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Felipe Ángeles International Airport (official site)](https://www.aifa.aero/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Metro and Metrobús (official site)](https://www.metro.cdmx.gob.mx/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Taxis, ride-hailing and Ecobici (official site)](https://ecobici.cdmx.gob.mx/en/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
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