About Visit Mexico City Guide

Why this site exists

Mexico City punishes a vague plan in three specific ways. Since 1 January 2026 every INAH museum and archaeological zone has charged two different prices — MX$210 for a non-resident foreign visitor and MX$105 for a Mexican national or foreign resident — and the free Sunday that fills every English-language listicle applies only to the second group, so a visitor who saves Sunday for the museums pays full price and gets the year's biggest crowd. The Museo Frida Kahlo sells no tickets at the door at all, and people still cross the city to a closed one. And the Monday closure catches the Anthropology Museum, the castle, the Casa Azul and Bellas Artes on the same day, while Teotihuacán stays open.

So every price, hour and closed day here is read off the official page of the institution itself and stamped with the date it was read. Where the official source does not state a figure — how long a visit takes, how busy a day is — the page says not stated instead of borrowing a plausible number.

Where the information comes from

Opening hours, closed days, ticket names and admission prices come from the institutions themselves: inah.gob.mx and its museum sites (mna.inah.gob.mx, mnh.inah.gob.mx) for the archaeological zones and federal museums, inba.gob.mx for the Palacio de Bellas Artes, museofridakahlo.org.mx for the Casa Azul, virgendeguadalupe.org.mx for the Basílica, and turismo.cdmx.gob.mx for city information. Ticket prices are cross-checked against the official shop at ventadeboletosenlinea.inah.gob.mx. Climate figures are computed from the Open-Meteo ERA5 reanalysis for 1995–2024 rather than copied from another guide. Each page prints its sources and the check date in its freshness box.

Tour prices, durations, ratings and review counts are the booking platform's own published numbers, read on the date shown on the card. Where a city operator's own website will not answer our requests — the CDMX transport sites refused every one of them in August 2026 — the page says so beside the figure instead of pretending to a source it does not have.

What we do not claim

There is no invented author here, no character who lives in a particular quarter and no claim that someone from this site stood in a particular queue on a particular morning. We do not operate or personally conduct these tours, and we do not inspect museums or audit any operator.

We also hold no bookings. Every Check Availability button hands you to the platform the tour is sold on, where the price, the terms and the cancellation window are theirs. Official ticket offices are linked plainly, without any tracking on the link, whenever buying direct is the better move — which for several of the Mexico City tickets covered here it is.

How the site pays for itself

Tour and activity links on this site are affiliate links: book through one and the platform pays us a commission, at the same price you would have paid going there yourself. That pays for the research and buys nothing else — not placement, not a rating, not the wording of a recommendation. Where the official ticket office is cheaper or the only sensible option, the page says so even though that link earns nothing.

The mechanics are set out on the affiliate disclosure page.

Corrections

Museum hours in Mexico City change with the season, ticket systems get renamed and the INAH tariff is reset every January. If a number here is out of date, write to us with what you found and when you were there. A corrected figure is worth more than a defended one.