🇲🇽 Mexico or 🇪🇬 Egypt
Which one, honestly
Mexico leads on food, the sea and cities. Egypt leads on value for money.
A normal day costs about $95 in Mexico and $75 in Egypt.
Side by side
- 🇲🇽 Mexico🇪🇬 Egypt
- Jan, Feb, Mar, Nov, DecBest monthsJan, Feb, Mar, Oct, Nov, Dec
- $95A normal day$75
- 11h 45m to Mexico CityNonstop from London5h 15m to Cairo
- ExceptionalBeaches and seaVery good
- ExceptionalCities and cultureVery good
- ExceptionalFoodGood
- Very goodNature and hikingGood
- Very goodValue for moneyExceptional
- GoodEasy to get aroundGood
- Comfortable long distance buses and cheap domestic flightsGetting aroundSleeper trains along the Nile and cheap domestic flights
- The Caribbean coast in September and October, peak hurricane seasonWhen to avoidUpper Egypt from June to August, when Luxor and Aswan are unbearable
Pick by what you want
🇲🇽 Choose Mexico if
you want one of the great food countries, ruins and two very different coastlines, without European prices.
🇪🇬 Choose Egypt if
you want the oldest thing on this list, a river trip through it, and Red Sea diving, at prices nowhere in Europe matches.
Full Mexico guide →Full Egypt guide →
And what the world thinks
Dead even. The next vote breaks the tie.
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Written and checked by hand. Nothing here about visas or entry rules: those change often and depend on your passport, so check an official source.