Mexico travel tips

Internet speed in Mexico

Median speeds from Ookla's Speedtest Global Index, June 2026 — what a rental's line and your phone actually get, not what the listing says.

Home broadband135 Mbpsmedian download in Guadalajara0world median 130300+Good — Comfortable for two people working, streaming in the evening, large downloads113 Mbps upload · 4 ms latency
Mobile data51 Mbpsmedian download in Guadalajara0world median 109300+11 Mbps upload · 27 ms latency

By city

under 30 basic · fair · 100+ good · 150+ fast — the tick is the world median.

PlaceHome broadbandMobile dataWork from it?
Guadalajarameasured in Guadalajara135 MbpsGood · 113 up · 4 ms51 MbpsFair · 11 up · 27 msNot at the median
Mexico Citymeasured in Mexico City122 MbpsGood · 84 up · 6 ms42 MbpsFair · 9 up · 24 msNot at the median
Mexico as a wholeOokla publishes no separate figure for Cancun, Tulum, Oaxaca, Los Cabos, Playa del Carmen, Isla Mujeres, Cozumel, Isla Holbox, Bacalar, Valladolid, Mérida, Campeche, Palenque, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Puerto Escondido, Huatulco, Puebla, Taxco, Guanajuato, San Miguel de Allende, Querétaro, Morelia, Tequila, Puerto Vallarta, Sayulita, Mazatlán, La Paz, Baja California, Todos Santos; the national median stands for them.118 MbpsGood · 95 up · 6 ms46 MbpsFair · 10 up · 33 msNot at the median

A median is the middle of every test run in the place that quarter: half the lines are faster, half slower. Cities usually beat the national number; islands and hill towns usually do not. "Work from it" is this site's own line — 150 Mbps down, 50 up, under 30 ms — for a household on calls all day; one person needs far less.

The guides in Mexico

aerial photo of white buildingsCancunMexicoCaribbean turquoise meets Mayan historypeople walking on sidewalk near brown concrete building during daytimeMexico CityMexicoAztec ruins, world-class museums, and the best street food anywhereaerial photography of beach shore during daytimeTulumMexicoMaya ruins on a cliff above the Caribbean, cenotes in the jungle behind, and a beach road that got expensivea large building with a dome and a courtyard with people walking aroundOaxacaMexicoThe best food in Mexico, seven kinds of mole, mezcal from the village that made it, and the Day of the Deadbrown rock formation on sea under blue sky during daytimeLos CabosMexicoDesert running into the Pacific at the tip of Baja, with grey whales in the bay every winterLoungers and a thatched parasol on the white sand at Playa del CarmenPlaya del CarmenMexicoA beach town that became a city: a pedestrian avenue of bars and dive shops, white sand either side of it, and the ferry to Cozumel from the middleBoats and sunshades on the shallow turquoise water at Playa Norte, Isla MujeresIsla MujeresMexicoAn island eight kilometres long with the best beach in the Mexican Caribbean at one end, golf carts instead of cars, and Cancún twenty minutes across the waterThe Cozumel shore from the air, houses along a line of white sand and reefCozumelMexicoThe best wall diving in the western hemisphere, an island that empties the moment the cruise ships leave, and a wild eastern shore with nothing on itThatched wooden cabanas among the palms on Isla HolboxIsla HolboxMexicoA sandbar island with no cars, no pavements and no bank: golf carts through the sand, flamingos on the lagoon, and whale sharks offshore in summerThe Bacalar lagoon from above, its blues running from turquoise to deep greenBacalarMexicoA freshwater lagoon of seven blues over a white limestone floor, with cenotes dropping out of the middle of it and a pirate fort on the shoreThe white twin-towered church of San Servacio on the plaza in ValladolidValladolidMexicoA colonial town of painted houses with a cenote in the middle of it, an hour from Chichén Itzá and nothing like the coastDancers in white under the red arcades of a colonial building in MéridaMéridaMexicoThe Yucatán’s white city: a colonial grid of courtyards, the best food on the peninsula, free concerts most nights and cenotes an hour in every directionA street of painted colonial houses inside the walls of CampecheCampecheMexicoA walled city painted in sherbet colours on the Gulf, with pirate forts at either end and almost nobody in itThe Maya palace at Palenque standing among the jungle treesPalenqueMexicoA Maya city half-swallowed by jungle, with howler monkeys in the canopy above the temples and waterfalls an hour down the roadTiled roofs of San Cristóbal with the highland mountains behindSan Cristóbal de las CasasMexicoA highland colonial town at 2,200 metres, cold at night and full of Tzotzil markets, with the strangest church in Mexico half an hour awayPalms above a rocky bay on the Pacific at Puerto EscondidoPuerto EscondidoMexicoA surf town on the Oaxacan coast with one of the heaviest beach breaks in the world at one end and a calm swimming bay at the otherOne of the Huatulco bays, a curve of sand between headlandsHuatulcoMexicoNine bays and thirty-six beaches on a coast that was planned rather than grown, with a national park behind it and boats the only way to half of itA street of coloured colonial facades with tables outside, PueblaPueblaMexicoA city of tiled facades under two volcanoes, where mole poblano was invented and the biggest pyramid on earth sits under a churchThe pink towers of Santa Prisca above the white houses of TaxcoTaxcoMexicoA silver town poured down a mountainside: white houses, red roofs, streets too steep for anything but a Volkswagen Beetle, and silversmiths in every doorwayGuanajuato packed into its ravine, the houses stacked up both sidesGuanajuatoMexicoA silver city crammed into a ravine, with its traffic running through tunnels under it, painted houses stacked up both sides and a student population that sings in the streetsA street of ochre and red buildings in San Miguel de AllendeSan Miguel de AllendeMexicoA colonial town of pink stone and bougainvillea, kept perfectly by the people who moved here for it, with a neo-Gothic church that looks like a fairy taleA cobbled street of colonial houses in the centre of QuerétaroQuerétaroMexicoA colonial centre of aqueducts and shaded plazas that most visitors drive past, with the country’s newest wine region an hour up the roadA wet alley of pink stone reflecting the sky in MoreliaMoreliaMexicoA city built entirely of pink stone, with an aqueduct running into the middle of it and the monarch butterflies wintering in the mountains two hours awayThe lit cathedral towers over the plaza at dusk in GuadalajaraGuadalajaraMexicoThe city that invented mariachi, tequila and the charreada, with murals by Orozco under a dome and the best food in western MexicoA field of blue agave with the mountains of Jalisco behindTequilaMexicoThe town the drink is named for, in a valley of blue agave that is a World Heritage site, with distilleries you can walk into and a train that brings youThe beach and palms curving towards the town at Puerto VallartaPuerto VallartaMexicoA cobbled old town on a bay with jungle mountains behind it, the most welcoming gay scene in Latin America, and beaches reachable only by boatSayulita from the air, pools and roofs among the jungle above the baySayulitaMexicoA surf village of bunting and bare feet north of Vallarta, small enough to cross in ten minutes and busy enough to feel like a festivalThe yellow towers of the cathedral against a blue sky in MazatlánMazatlánMexicoA working Pacific port with the longest seafront promenade in Latin America, a restored old town of opera and ironwork, and a carnival that fills FebruaryA bare desert mountain rising straight out of the Sea of Cortez near La PazLa Paz, Baja CaliforniaMexicoA quiet Baja capital on the Sea of Cortez, with whale sharks in the bay in winter and the emptiest turquoise beaches in Mexico up the roadTwo figures in Day of the Dead costume on a street in Todos SantosTodos SantosMexicoA desert oasis town of galleries and palm groves an hour from Cabo, with a wild Pacific beach that is not for swimming and whales going past it

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