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Travel and Tourism in Mexico
Travel alerts, currency, climate, transit, health, and safety information for visitors to Mexico.
Practical Information
Travel alert status, currency, climate, and transit details.
- Travel Alert Status
- Do Not Travel To: Colima state due to crime and kidnapping. Guerrero state due to crime. Michoacan state due to crime and kidnapping. Sinaloa state due to crime and kidnapping Tamaulipas state due to crime and kidnapping. Zacatecas state due to crime and kidnapping. Reconsider Travel To: Baja California state due to crime and kidnapping. Chihuahua state due to crime and kidnapping. Durango state due to crime. Guanajuato state due to crime and kidnapping. Jalisco state due to crime and kidnapping. Morelos state due to crime. Sonora state due to crime and kidnapping.
- Time Difference
- UTC-6 (1 hour behind Washington, DC, during Standard Time) time zone note: Mexico has four time zones
- Currency
- 19.63
- Climate
- With a climate that varies from tropical to desert, the terrain ranges from high rugged mountains to low coastal plains and high plateaus to desert. Mexican natural hazards include tsunamis on the Pacific coast, volcanoes and destructive earthquakes at the center and south, and hurricanes on the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean coasts.
- Language(s) Spoken
- Spanish only 93.8%, Spanish and indigenous languages 5.4%, indigenous only 0.6%, unspecified 0.2%; note - indigenous languages include various Mayan, Nahuatl, and other regional languages
- Ethnic Groups
- Mestizo (Indigenous-Spanish) 62%, predominantly Indigenous 21%, Indigenous 7%, other 10% (mostly European)
- National Holiday
- Independence Day, 16 September (1810)
- Geographic Coordinates
- 23 00 N, 102 00 W
- Location
- North America, bordering the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, between Belize and the United States and bordering the North Pacific Ocean, between Guatemala and the United States
- Airports
- 1724
Destinations
Regions and cities, top sights, national parks, UNESCO sites, and festivals for visitors.
Mexico City — The Capital
Mexico City is one of the hemisphere's greatest urban experiences, a megacity of staggering size, cultural depth, and relentless vitality. With a metropolitan population of more than 21 million people spread across the Federal Entity and surrounding municipalities, it is one of the largest urban agglomerations on Earth. Yet for all its vastness and complexity, Mexico City manages to feel surprisingly navigable once you understand its neighborhood structure. Each colonia — the local term for neighborhood — has its own distinct character, food scene, and atmosphere, and the best way to experience the city is to pick two or three and explore them thoroughly on foot.
The historic center, known as the Centro Histórico, is the logical starting point for any visit to Mexico City. This dense urban core, inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987, contains an extraordinary concentration of colonial architecture built on top of the ruins of Tenochtitlán, the Aztec capital.
Health and Safety
Medical facilities, vaccinations, disease risk, and sanitation conditions.
Adequate medical care can be found in major cities. Excellent health facilities are available in Mexico City, but training and availability of emergency responders may be below U.S. standards. Care in more remote areas is limited. Standards of medical training, patient care, and business practices vary greatly among medical facilities in beach resorts throughout Mexico. In recent years, some U.S.