CITY / CITYComparación de ciudades verificada
Medellínvs.Mexico City.
Medellín sale mejor en 4 de 8 datos principales; Mexico City, en 3. Cost of living (single, excl. rent): Medellín $705/mo, Mexico City $780/mo. Freelancer tax burden: Medellín 17,3%, Mexico City 2%. Climate comfort: Medellín 2/12 mo, Mexico City 12/12 mo.
Verificado
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co / mx · SettleMetric
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Las diferencias clave
Las cifras clave cara a cara, con el lado más fuerte señalado. La puntuación global es decorativa; lo que importa es qué datos encajan contigo.
Resultado principal
Medellín va por delante en 4 de 8
Medellín
4
Mexico City
3
01Cost of living (single, excl. rent)
Medellínmejor
$705/mo
DANE — línea de pobreza y clasificación por ingreso 2025 (basket anchor), CPI-consistent
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2025
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Curated single-person non-rent basket (food, utilities, urban transport, mobile+internet, modest leisure and misc.) for a foreign remote worker in a major Colombian city, anchored on DANE 2025 income bands (national poverty line 482,041 COP/mo; middle-class per-capita spending 853,608–4,596,352 COP/mo) and typical published utility/transport/mobile tariffs. Estimated ≈ 2,360,000 COP/mo ÷ 3,349.7 COP/USD (ECB EUR/COP 3,817.83 ÷ EUR/USD 1.1399, fx-rates 2026-07-02) ≈ 705 USD. Curated estimate — DANE has not published a 2025/2026 one-person-household consumption line comparable to Poland's GUS figure; to be refined from ENPH microdata.
Mexico City
$780/mo
INEGI — ENIGH 2024 (gasto corriente monetario), scaled to a single-person basket
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 may 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- ENIGH 2024 average household monetary current spending was 47,674 MXN/quarter ≈ 15,891 MXN/month across an average 3.4-person household. Removing housing rent, and taking the categories a single person still bears in full (food, utilities, transport, communications, personal care, leisure) at single-person rather than strict per-capita levels, gives ≈ 13,700 MXN/month for one person excluding rent. Converted at 17.559 MXN/USD (ECB EUR 20.0153 / USD 1.1399, 2026-07-02) ≈ $780/month. National average; Mexico City runs higher, smaller cities lower. See cost-breakdown for the itemised basket.
02Freelancer tax burden
Medellín
17,3%
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 ene 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Best eligible scheme co-rst-professional at €60,000 = 229,069,800 COP (3,817.83 COP/EUR), ≈ 4,374 UVT → SIMPLE professional-services band 0–6,000 UVT = 5.9% of gross = 13,515,118; plus mandatory independent social security on IBC = 40% of income: health 12.5% of IBC = 5% of gross = 11,453,490 and pension 16% of IBC = 6.4% of gross = 14,660,467. Total = 39,629,075 COP → 17.3%. Consistent with the co-rst-professional worked examples. Note: at this income IBC ≈ 4.36 SMMLV ≥ 4, so the Fondo de Solidaridad Pensional adds ≈ 0.4% (all-in ≈ 17.7%); and the SIMPLE pension discount, if claimed, would lower it further — both unmodeled, so 17.3% is the modeled, conservative-of-those figure.
Mexico Citymejor
2%
SettleMetric tax engine over official 2026 rules (Art. 113-E LISR, SAT)
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 ene 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Best eligible scheme mx-resico at €60,000 = 1,200,918 MXN (ECB 20.0153 MXN/EUR, 2026-07-02). RESICO annual income in the $1M–$2.5M band → 2.0% of gross with no deductions → ISR 24,018.36 MXN, and no mandatory social contributions (IMSS is voluntary in Mexico). Total burden 24,018.36 / 1,200,918 = 2.0%. The general professional-activity regime would tax the same profile at roughly 20.7% (see mx-actividad-profesional), so RESICO is decisively better for a low-cost freelancer.
03Homicide rate
Medellínmejor
11,3/100k
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2024
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- 319 homicides in Medellín in 2024 (SISC), 59 fewer than 2023 (−16%); the city's SISC/security-secretariat reported an official rate of 11.3 per 100,000, the lowest among Colombia's main cities and the lowest local rate since the mid-20th century. Victims: 290 men (91%), 28 women (9%).
- Notas
- Municipal SISC figure (city proper). Well below the Colombian national rate (~25/100k) and below Bogotá (~15/100k) in 2024 — a historic low after decades of cartel-era violence — but still several times rich-world capital levels. 2025 figures were trending slightly upward at time of writing; to be re-verified against the SISC year-end 2025 balance.
Mexico City
25,6/100k
INEGI — Defunciones por homicidio 2024 (Reporte de resultados, 1-ago-2025)
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2024
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Notas
- 33,241 homicide deaths registered in 2024, rate 25.6 per 100,000 (up from 24.9 in 2023). Highly uneven by state: Colima 123, Morelos 77, Baja California 65 at the top; Yucatán 3, Coahuila 4, Mexico City ~10 at the low end. The national figure masks large regional variation relevant to city choice.
04Climate comfort
Medellín
2/12 mo
SettleMetric computation over climate-normals
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2020
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Months with mean daily max 15–28°C AND precipitation < 150mm: only Jan (27.9°C, 72mm) and Dec (27.3°C, 115mm) qualify = 2. Ten months miss the strict test — seven exceed the 28°C max ceiling by a fraction (28.1–28.7°C) and the rest carry >150mm rain (Mar–May, Sep–Nov are the two wet seasons). This understates real comfort: Medellín's temperature is famously stable and spring-like all year (its 'Eternal Spring' reputation); the criterion penalises it for a whisker over 28°C at the warm valley-floor station and for heavy tropical rainfall, not for genuine seasonality. Users should read the raw normals alongside this score.
Mexico Citymejor
12/12 mo
SettleMetric computation over climate-normals (Tacubaya WMO 76680)
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2020
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Months with mean daily max 15–28 °C and precipitation < 150 mm. All 12 months qualify: max ranges 20.8–26.6 °C every month (Mexico City's high-altitude tropical climate has almost no seasonal temperature swing), and the wettest month (July, 133.2 mm) stays under the 150 mm threshold. = 12.
05Internet speed
Medellín
17 Mbps
M-Lab NDT country aggregates for Colombia
Datos abiertos
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2023
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Mean of the daily country median download (download_MED) values in M-Lab's public statistics API for Colombia; the published file covers the first 16 days of 2023 (≈181,872 tests), mean ≈ 17.4 Mbps; the 2024 file (first 16 days) is consistent at ≈ 16.9 Mbps.
- Notas
- M-Lab NDT is single-stream and reads well below Ookla-style figures — comparable only within this criterion. M-Lab's public stats API exposes only a partial-year window for Colombia, so this is a limited-coverage figure to be refined via BigQuery. Urban fibre plans advertise 100–900 Mbps; the M-Lab median reflects the mixed national access base.
Mexico Citymejor
18 Mbps
M-Lab NDT country aggregates for Mexico
Datos abiertos
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2023
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Median of the daily country median download values (download_MED) from M-Lab's public NDT statistics for Mexico, 2023 (the latest full year in M-Lab's published stats API; 2024+ files not yet available). Daily medians cluster tightly around 18 Mbps over hundreds of thousands of tests.
- Notas
- M-Lab NDT is a single-stream test and reads well below Ookla-style marketing figures (Mexican fixed connections commonly sell 50–200 Mbps) — comparable only within this criterion. Fixed broadband quality varies widely: fibre is strong in Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey, weaker in smaller towns.
06English proficiency
Medellín
Low
EF EPI 2025 — Colombia rank 76/123, score 480 (Low Proficiency band)
Estudio
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 nov 2025
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Notas
- Own band informed by EF EPI 2025 (attribution: EF Education First); score 480 sits in EF's 'Low Proficiency' band. Spanish is the working language for government, healthcare and most services; English is workable in tourist/expat pockets of Bogotá and Medellín and in tech/BPO circles but not broadly across daily life.
Mexico City
Low
EF EPI 2025 — Mexico (score 440, rank 103/123, Low band)
Estudio
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 nov 2025
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Notas
- Own band informed by EF EPI 2025 (attribution: EF Education First): Mexico scores 440 and ranks 103rd, in EF's 'Low' band. English is workable in tourist zones, international business, and among younger urban professionals, but government offices, healthcare, and everyday services are conducted in Spanish; functional Spanish is effectively required for daily life.
07Private healthcare cost
Medellínmejor
$1250/yr
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 4 jul 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Comprehensive private cover in Colombia layers on top of the mandatory contributory system (EPS): a 'medicina prepagada' or voluntary health plan (Sura, Colsanitas, Coomeva) with outpatient + inpatient access for a healthy 35-year-old runs roughly 250,000–450,000 COP/month; midpoint ≈ 350,000 COP/mo ≈ 4,200,000 COP/yr ≈ 1,254 USD at 3,349.7 COP/USD (range ≈ $895–$1,610). Curated market midpoint — Colombian prepaid-medicine premiums are age/plan-banded and quoted on request, not from a public engine.
- Notas
- Residents affiliated to an EPS already have universal contributory cover; prepaid medicine buys faster access, private hospitals and broader networks. Premiums exclude the mandatory 12.5% health contribution (counted in the tax burden), not an insurance premium. International (IPMI) plans cost several times more.
Mexico City
$1800/yr
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 4 jul 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Comprehensive 'gastos médicos mayores' plans (major-medical: hospitalisation, surgery, plus outpatient riders) from GNP, AXA México, Allianz and Mapfre run roughly $120–190 USD/month for a healthy adult under 35 → ≈$1,440–$2,280/year. Midpoint ≈ $1,800/year. Premiums are quoted individually (age, deductible, hospital network), so this is a curated market midpoint, not a public engine quote. Mexican medical inflation is high (est. ~15% for 2026), pushing premiums up 20–40% year on year.
- Notas
- Comprehensive (with-inpatient) basis per the data-quality lesson. Residents also have free access to public IMSS-Bienestar/IMSS care, but private cover is the norm for expats/freelancers who want private-hospital access. Deductibles and coinsurance apply on top of the premium.
08Air quality (PM2.5)
Medellínmejor
15,5 µg/m³
Área Metropolitana del Valle de Aburrá (AMVA) — SIATA, Informe Anual de Calidad del Aire 2023
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2023
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- City annual mean PM2.5 for Medellín ≈ 15.5 µg/m³ (2023) from the official AMVA/SIATA Valle de Aburrá monitoring network annual report; the network reports a further fall to ≈14.8 µg/m³ in 2024. Figure attributed to the AMVA 2023 annual report; the exact per-station table should be reconciled against the report PDF.
- Notas
- ≈3× the WHO 2021 annual guideline (5 µg/m³) and above the 2030 EU limit (10), within the current EU limit (25). The Aburrá valley traps pollution and suffers seasonal contingency episodes (Feb–Mar, Oct) when levels spike several-fold; neighbouring Bello and Envigado read higher than Medellín proper. Air quality is a genuine drawback of the location. To be re-verified against the AMVA 2024 annual report.
Mexico City
20 µg/m³
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2023
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Network-wide annual mean PM2.5 for the Zona Metropolitana del Valle de México in 2023 = 20 µg/m³ (stations with ≥65% data sufficiency), reported by the official CDMX government air-quality authority (SEDEMA, Dirección de Monitoreo Atmosférico) using U.S. EPA reference-method monitors. Per-station annual means ranged from 15 µg/m³ at Pedregal (southern CDMX) to 21 µg/m³ at Xalostoc (in México State). PM10 annual mean was 41 µg/m³.
- Notas
- About 4× the WHO 2021 guideline (5 µg/m³) and double the incoming Mexican NOM-025 annual limit of 10 µg/m³ (effective 2026). Highest concentrations occur in the dry-cold season (Nov–Feb) driven by thermal inversions and holiday fireworks; the rainy summer is much cleaner. Value is the metropolitan-area (ZMVM) network mean — no separate CDMX-proper city figure is published, but the southern CDMX stations run somewhat below the metro mean.
02
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Mexico City encaja mejor: 2 de 5
01Freelancer tax burden
Medellín
17,3%
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 ene 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Best eligible scheme co-rst-professional at €60,000 = 229,069,800 COP (3,817.83 COP/EUR), ≈ 4,374 UVT → SIMPLE professional-services band 0–6,000 UVT = 5.9% of gross = 13,515,118; plus mandatory independent social security on IBC = 40% of income: health 12.5% of IBC = 5% of gross = 11,453,490 and pension 16% of IBC = 6.4% of gross = 14,660,467. Total = 39,629,075 COP → 17.3%. Consistent with the co-rst-professional worked examples. Note: at this income IBC ≈ 4.36 SMMLV ≥ 4, so the Fondo de Solidaridad Pensional adds ≈ 0.4% (all-in ≈ 17.7%); and the SIMPLE pension discount, if claimed, would lower it further — both unmodeled, so 17.3% is the modeled, conservative-of-those figure.
Mexico Citymejor
2%
SettleMetric tax engine over official 2026 rules (Art. 113-E LISR, SAT)
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 ene 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Best eligible scheme mx-resico at €60,000 = 1,200,918 MXN (ECB 20.0153 MXN/EUR, 2026-07-02). RESICO annual income in the $1M–$2.5M band → 2.0% of gross with no deductions → ISR 24,018.36 MXN, and no mandatory social contributions (IMSS is voluntary in Mexico). Total burden 24,018.36 / 1,200,918 = 2.0%. The general professional-activity regime would tax the same profile at roughly 20.7% (see mx-actividad-profesional), so RESICO is decisively better for a low-cost freelancer.
02Internet speed
Medellín
17 Mbps
M-Lab NDT country aggregates for Colombia
Datos abiertos
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2023
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Mean of the daily country median download (download_MED) values in M-Lab's public statistics API for Colombia; the published file covers the first 16 days of 2023 (≈181,872 tests), mean ≈ 17.4 Mbps; the 2024 file (first 16 days) is consistent at ≈ 16.9 Mbps.
- Notas
- M-Lab NDT is single-stream and reads well below Ookla-style figures — comparable only within this criterion. M-Lab's public stats API exposes only a partial-year window for Colombia, so this is a limited-coverage figure to be refined via BigQuery. Urban fibre plans advertise 100–900 Mbps; the M-Lab median reflects the mixed national access base.
Mexico Citymejor
18 Mbps
M-Lab NDT country aggregates for Mexico
Datos abiertos
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2023
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Median of the daily country median download values (download_MED) from M-Lab's public NDT statistics for Mexico, 2023 (the latest full year in M-Lab's published stats API; 2024+ files not yet available). Daily medians cluster tightly around 18 Mbps over hundreds of thousands of tests.
- Notas
- M-Lab NDT is a single-stream test and reads well below Ookla-style marketing figures (Mexican fixed connections commonly sell 50–200 Mbps) — comparable only within this criterion. Fixed broadband quality varies widely: fibre is strong in Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey, weaker in smaller towns.
03English proficiency
Medellín
Low
EF EPI 2025 — Colombia rank 76/123, score 480 (Low Proficiency band)
Estudio
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 nov 2025
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Notas
- Own band informed by EF EPI 2025 (attribution: EF Education First); score 480 sits in EF's 'Low Proficiency' band. Spanish is the working language for government, healthcare and most services; English is workable in tourist/expat pockets of Bogotá and Medellín and in tech/BPO circles but not broadly across daily life.
Mexico City
Low
EF EPI 2025 — Mexico (score 440, rank 103/123, Low band)
Estudio
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 nov 2025
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Notas
- Own band informed by EF EPI 2025 (attribution: EF Education First): Mexico scores 440 and ranks 103rd, in EF's 'Low' band. English is workable in tourist zones, international business, and among younger urban professionals, but government offices, healthcare, and everyday services are conducted in Spanish; functional Spanish is effectively required for daily life.
04Cost of living (single, excl. rent)
Medellínmejor
$705/mo
DANE — línea de pobreza y clasificación por ingreso 2025 (basket anchor), CPI-consistent
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2025
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Curated single-person non-rent basket (food, utilities, urban transport, mobile+internet, modest leisure and misc.) for a foreign remote worker in a major Colombian city, anchored on DANE 2025 income bands (national poverty line 482,041 COP/mo; middle-class per-capita spending 853,608–4,596,352 COP/mo) and typical published utility/transport/mobile tariffs. Estimated ≈ 2,360,000 COP/mo ÷ 3,349.7 COP/USD (ECB EUR/COP 3,817.83 ÷ EUR/USD 1.1399, fx-rates 2026-07-02) ≈ 705 USD. Curated estimate — DANE has not published a 2025/2026 one-person-household consumption line comparable to Poland's GUS figure; to be refined from ENPH microdata.
Mexico City
$780/mo
INEGI — ENIGH 2024 (gasto corriente monetario), scaled to a single-person basket
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 may 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- ENIGH 2024 average household monetary current spending was 47,674 MXN/quarter ≈ 15,891 MXN/month across an average 3.4-person household. Removing housing rent, and taking the categories a single person still bears in full (food, utilities, transport, communications, personal care, leisure) at single-person rather than strict per-capita levels, gives ≈ 13,700 MXN/month for one person excluding rent. Converted at 17.559 MXN/USD (ECB EUR 20.0153 / USD 1.1399, 2026-07-02) ≈ $780/month. National average; Mexico City runs higher, smaller cities lower. See cost-breakdown for the itemised basket.
05Domestic delivery quality
Medellín
Good
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 30 jun 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Composite of the national operator (4-72 / Servicios Postales Nacionales) plus the dominant private networks (Servientrega, Coordinadora, Interrapidísimo, TCC, Envía) that provide dense nationwide door-to-door and office-pickup coverage with tracking; 1–3 day delivery between major cities is standard, longer to rural/remote municipalities. Parcel-locker networks are limited compared with Europe. Rated 'good' (reliable major-city coverage, not next-day-everywhere with dense lockers).
Mexico City
Good
Estafeta / FedEx México / Correos de México (MexPost) official service pages (composite)
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 4 jul 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Classified from carrier service/coverage pages: FedEx México, DHL, Estafeta and Redpack offer next-day delivery in major cities with standard real-time tracking; Correos de México/MexPost and Estafeta reach rural areas but 'zonas extendidas' incur reexpedición surcharges and slower delivery; OXXO/convenience-store pickup is widespread. Landed on 'good' (not 'excellent') because coverage is dense in metros but slower and pricier in the rural long tail, and there is no nationwide parcel-locker network on the European scale.
- Notas
- Next-day in major cities; slower and surcharged in hard-to-reach zones.
Familia
Mudarse con pareja e hijos en edad escolar.
Medellín encaja mejor: 3 de 5
01International schools
Medellín
8
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 4 jul 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Count of internationally-accredited schools in the Medellín metro (city + Envigado/Itagüí/El Retiro). Two verified directly against their accreditor's own registry: Lycée Français de Medellín (AEFE réseau, homologué — aefe.gouv.fr) and Deutsche Schule Medellín (German ZfA network / Itagüí — pasch-net.de). Six further internationally-accredited schools are well attested across sources as IB / Cambridge / CIS members: The Columbus School (Envigado, IB/US), Vermont School (IB), Colegio Colombo Británico (Envigado, IB), Colegio Montessori (IB PYP), The New School (Envigado, IB), and Marymount School (Cambridge curriculum + CIS/NEASC accreditation).
- Notas
- Only the AEFE and ZfA schools were confirmed one-by-one against the accreditor's public registry; the IB and Cambridge/CIS members' official directories (ibo.org, cambridgeinternational.org, cis.org) blocked automated access, so those six rest on strongly consistent secondary reporting pending direct registry reconciliation. The true accredited-international total for the Aburrá valley may be a little higher (several additional bilingual schools hold IB or Cambridge status). Count excludes purely bilingual schools with no external accreditation.
Mexico Citymejor
19
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 4 jul 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Deduplicated count of Mexico City metro schools accredited by/member of the qualifying bodies (IB, Cambridge, AEFE, German Auslandsschulwesen, US/College Board, CIS/COBIS). IB finder lists 17 IB World Schools in the CDMX metro (Greengates, Eton, The American School Foundation, Edron Academy, Westhill, Peterson, Olinca, Churchill, Winpenny, Instituto Thomas Jefferson ×2, Escuela Lomas Altas, Colegio Lomas Hill, Atid, Tomás Alva Edison, Schweizerschule, British American School). Added, not in the IB list: Lycée Franco-Mexicain (AEFE-homologated, aefe.gouv.fr) and Colegio Alemán Alexander von Humboldt (German ZfA 'Excellent German School', 3 metro campuses counted as one institution). = 19.
- Notas
- ±2 uncertainty. The IB finder may include candidate (not-yet-authorised) schools; several IB schools also hold Cambridge/US accreditation but are counted once; Cambridge-only or CIS/COBIS-only schools not in the IB list may be undercounted. Count spans the wider CDMX metropolitan area (some campuses, e.g. Greengates and Colegio Alemán's Lomas Verdes site, sit in adjoining México State suburbs).
02Homicide rate
Medellínmejor
11,3/100k
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2024
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- 319 homicides in Medellín in 2024 (SISC), 59 fewer than 2023 (−16%); the city's SISC/security-secretariat reported an official rate of 11.3 per 100,000, the lowest among Colombia's main cities and the lowest local rate since the mid-20th century. Victims: 290 men (91%), 28 women (9%).
- Notas
- Municipal SISC figure (city proper). Well below the Colombian national rate (~25/100k) and below Bogotá (~15/100k) in 2024 — a historic low after decades of cartel-era violence — but still several times rich-world capital levels. 2025 figures were trending slightly upward at time of writing; to be re-verified against the SISC year-end 2025 balance.
Mexico City
25,6/100k
INEGI — Defunciones por homicidio 2024 (Reporte de resultados, 1-ago-2025)
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2024
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Notas
- 33,241 homicide deaths registered in 2024, rate 25.6 per 100,000 (up from 24.9 in 2023). Highly uneven by state: Colima 123, Morelos 77, Baja California 65 at the top; Yucatán 3, Coahuila 4, Mexico City ~10 at the low end. The national figure masks large regional variation relevant to city choice.
03Private healthcare cost
Medellínmejor
$1250/yr
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 4 jul 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Comprehensive private cover in Colombia layers on top of the mandatory contributory system (EPS): a 'medicina prepagada' or voluntary health plan (Sura, Colsanitas, Coomeva) with outpatient + inpatient access for a healthy 35-year-old runs roughly 250,000–450,000 COP/month; midpoint ≈ 350,000 COP/mo ≈ 4,200,000 COP/yr ≈ 1,254 USD at 3,349.7 COP/USD (range ≈ $895–$1,610). Curated market midpoint — Colombian prepaid-medicine premiums are age/plan-banded and quoted on request, not from a public engine.
- Notas
- Residents affiliated to an EPS already have universal contributory cover; prepaid medicine buys faster access, private hospitals and broader networks. Premiums exclude the mandatory 12.5% health contribution (counted in the tax burden), not an insurance premium. International (IPMI) plans cost several times more.
Mexico City
$1800/yr
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 4 jul 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Comprehensive 'gastos médicos mayores' plans (major-medical: hospitalisation, surgery, plus outpatient riders) from GNP, AXA México, Allianz and Mapfre run roughly $120–190 USD/month for a healthy adult under 35 → ≈$1,440–$2,280/year. Midpoint ≈ $1,800/year. Premiums are quoted individually (age, deductible, hospital network), so this is a curated market midpoint, not a public engine quote. Mexican medical inflation is high (est. ~15% for 2026), pushing premiums up 20–40% year on year.
- Notas
- Comprehensive (with-inpatient) basis per the data-quality lesson. Residents also have free access to public IMSS-Bienestar/IMSS care, but private cover is the norm for expats/freelancers who want private-hospital access. Deductibles and coinsurance apply on top of the premium.
04Air quality (PM2.5)
Medellínmejor
15,5 µg/m³
Área Metropolitana del Valle de Aburrá (AMVA) — SIATA, Informe Anual de Calidad del Aire 2023
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2023
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- City annual mean PM2.5 for Medellín ≈ 15.5 µg/m³ (2023) from the official AMVA/SIATA Valle de Aburrá monitoring network annual report; the network reports a further fall to ≈14.8 µg/m³ in 2024. Figure attributed to the AMVA 2023 annual report; the exact per-station table should be reconciled against the report PDF.
- Notas
- ≈3× the WHO 2021 annual guideline (5 µg/m³) and above the 2030 EU limit (10), within the current EU limit (25). The Aburrá valley traps pollution and suffers seasonal contingency episodes (Feb–Mar, Oct) when levels spike several-fold; neighbouring Bello and Envigado read higher than Medellín proper. Air quality is a genuine drawback of the location. To be re-verified against the AMVA 2024 annual report.
Mexico City
20 µg/m³
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2023
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Network-wide annual mean PM2.5 for the Zona Metropolitana del Valle de México in 2023 = 20 µg/m³ (stations with ≥65% data sufficiency), reported by the official CDMX government air-quality authority (SEDEMA, Dirección de Monitoreo Atmosférico) using U.S. EPA reference-method monitors. Per-station annual means ranged from 15 µg/m³ at Pedregal (southern CDMX) to 21 µg/m³ at Xalostoc (in México State). PM10 annual mean was 41 µg/m³.
- Notas
- About 4× the WHO 2021 guideline (5 µg/m³) and double the incoming Mexican NOM-025 annual limit of 10 µg/m³ (effective 2026). Highest concentrations occur in the dry-cold season (Nov–Feb) driven by thermal inversions and holiday fireworks; the rainy summer is much cleaner. Value is the metropolitan-area (ZMVM) network mean — no separate CDMX-proper city figure is published, but the southern CDMX stations run somewhat below the metro mean.
05English proficiency
Medellín
Low
EF EPI 2025 — Colombia rank 76/123, score 480 (Low Proficiency band)
Estudio
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 nov 2025
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Notas
- Own band informed by EF EPI 2025 (attribution: EF Education First); score 480 sits in EF's 'Low Proficiency' band. Spanish is the working language for government, healthcare and most services; English is workable in tourist/expat pockets of Bogotá and Medellín and in tech/BPO circles but not broadly across daily life.
Mexico City
Low
EF EPI 2025 — Mexico (score 440, rank 103/123, Low band)
Estudio
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 nov 2025
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Notas
- Own band informed by EF EPI 2025 (attribution: EF Education First): Mexico scores 440 and ranks 103rd, in EF's 'Low' band. English is workable in tourist zones, international business, and among younger urban professionals, but government offices, healthcare, and everyday services are conducted in Spanish; functional Spanish is effectively required for daily life.
Dinero y cripto
Optimizar impuestos, banca y normas sobre cripto.
Muy reñido para este plan
01Crypto regulation
Medellínmejor
Legal regulated
DIAN — Concepto Unificado 100202208-1621 de 2023 sobre criptoactivos (tratamiento tributario)
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 8 ene 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Notas
- Crypto is legal to hold/trade but is not legal tender (Banco de la República); the DIAN treats it as an intangible asset. Gains taxed as ordinary income (up to 39%) if held <2 years, or as ganancia ocasional (15%) if held ≥2 years; holdings must be declared. From tax-year 2025 the DIAN (Resolución 000240) requires registered virtual-asset service providers to report Colombian users' operations; the SFC administers a PSAV registry. No consumer ban; banking access can be uneven.
Mexico City
Restricted
Banco de México — Circular 4/2019 (Disposiciones aplicables a operaciones con activos virtuales)
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 8 mar 2019
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Notas
- Holding and trading crypto is legal for individuals and gains are taxed under ISR as enajenación de bienes. But virtual assets are not legal tender, and Banxico Circular 4/2019 bars banks and regulated fintechs from offering crypto services (custody, exchange, transmission) to the public; no institution has been authorised. Individuals buy/sell through unregulated exchanges that cannot hold client fiat. Classified 'restricted' because banking-channel access to crypto is prohibited, not merely regulated.
02Financial control level
Medellín
Moderate
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 26 feb 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Composite: the COP is convertible and there are no hard capital controls, but Colombia keeps a foreign-exchange regime (régimen cambiario) in which certain operations (external credit, foreign investment, some import/export) must be channelled through the regulated exchange market (IMC or a Banco de la República compensation account) with a declaración de cambio; residents may hold foreign accounts and compensation accounts. Service-export income (freelancer earnings) is not subject to mandatory channelling but reporting/traceability rules apply. Standard AML/UIAF and tax-reporting scope. Rated 'moderate' (freer than capital-control regimes, more paperwork than fully open EU/OECD peers).
Mexico City
Moderate
SAT — declaración anual / obligations, and Banco de México FX regime (composite)
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 4 jul 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Composite: the peso floats freely and is fully convertible with no capital or currency controls (IMF AREAER classifies MXN as free-floating); non-residents can open Mexican bank accounts (requires RFC/CURP and proof of address, more friction than the EU). No FBAR-style personal foreign-account disclosure regime, though CRS applies via banks and Mexico joined the crypto CARF reporting from 2026. Cash caps: purchases in cash above ~$100,000–500,000 MXN trigger anti-money-laundering reporting by the counterparty (Ley Antilavado), and cash payments above certain limits are non-deductible. Rated 'moderate' rather than 'low' because of RFC-gated banking, mandatory e-invoicing (CFDI) capturing most income, and AML cash-reporting thresholds.
03Freelancer tax burden
Medellín
17,3%
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 ene 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Best eligible scheme co-rst-professional at €60,000 = 229,069,800 COP (3,817.83 COP/EUR), ≈ 4,374 UVT → SIMPLE professional-services band 0–6,000 UVT = 5.9% of gross = 13,515,118; plus mandatory independent social security on IBC = 40% of income: health 12.5% of IBC = 5% of gross = 11,453,490 and pension 16% of IBC = 6.4% of gross = 14,660,467. Total = 39,629,075 COP → 17.3%. Consistent with the co-rst-professional worked examples. Note: at this income IBC ≈ 4.36 SMMLV ≥ 4, so the Fondo de Solidaridad Pensional adds ≈ 0.4% (all-in ≈ 17.7%); and the SIMPLE pension discount, if claimed, would lower it further — both unmodeled, so 17.3% is the modeled, conservative-of-those figure.
Mexico Citymejor
2%
SettleMetric tax engine over official 2026 rules (Art. 113-E LISR, SAT)
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 ene 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Best eligible scheme mx-resico at €60,000 = 1,200,918 MXN (ECB 20.0153 MXN/EUR, 2026-07-02). RESICO annual income in the $1M–$2.5M band → 2.0% of gross with no deductions → ISR 24,018.36 MXN, and no mandatory social contributions (IMSS is voluntary in Mexico). Total burden 24,018.36 / 1,200,918 = 2.0%. The general professional-activity regime would tax the same profile at roughly 20.7% (see mx-actividad-profesional), so RESICO is decisively better for a low-cost freelancer.
Vida tranquila
Priorizar la seguridad, el aire y una vida diaria sencilla.
Medellín encaja mejor: 3 de 4
01Homicide rate
Medellínmejor
11,3/100k
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2024
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- 319 homicides in Medellín in 2024 (SISC), 59 fewer than 2023 (−16%); the city's SISC/security-secretariat reported an official rate of 11.3 per 100,000, the lowest among Colombia's main cities and the lowest local rate since the mid-20th century. Victims: 290 men (91%), 28 women (9%).
- Notas
- Municipal SISC figure (city proper). Well below the Colombian national rate (~25/100k) and below Bogotá (~15/100k) in 2024 — a historic low after decades of cartel-era violence — but still several times rich-world capital levels. 2025 figures were trending slightly upward at time of writing; to be re-verified against the SISC year-end 2025 balance.
Mexico City
25,6/100k
INEGI — Defunciones por homicidio 2024 (Reporte de resultados, 1-ago-2025)
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2024
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Notas
- 33,241 homicide deaths registered in 2024, rate 25.6 per 100,000 (up from 24.9 in 2023). Highly uneven by state: Colima 123, Morelos 77, Baja California 65 at the top; Yucatán 3, Coahuila 4, Mexico City ~10 at the low end. The national figure masks large regional variation relevant to city choice.
02Air quality (PM2.5)
Medellínmejor
15,5 µg/m³
Área Metropolitana del Valle de Aburrá (AMVA) — SIATA, Informe Anual de Calidad del Aire 2023
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2023
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- City annual mean PM2.5 for Medellín ≈ 15.5 µg/m³ (2023) from the official AMVA/SIATA Valle de Aburrá monitoring network annual report; the network reports a further fall to ≈14.8 µg/m³ in 2024. Figure attributed to the AMVA 2023 annual report; the exact per-station table should be reconciled against the report PDF.
- Notas
- ≈3× the WHO 2021 annual guideline (5 µg/m³) and above the 2030 EU limit (10), within the current EU limit (25). The Aburrá valley traps pollution and suffers seasonal contingency episodes (Feb–Mar, Oct) when levels spike several-fold; neighbouring Bello and Envigado read higher than Medellín proper. Air quality is a genuine drawback of the location. To be re-verified against the AMVA 2024 annual report.
Mexico City
20 µg/m³
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2023
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Network-wide annual mean PM2.5 for the Zona Metropolitana del Valle de México in 2023 = 20 µg/m³ (stations with ≥65% data sufficiency), reported by the official CDMX government air-quality authority (SEDEMA, Dirección de Monitoreo Atmosférico) using U.S. EPA reference-method monitors. Per-station annual means ranged from 15 µg/m³ at Pedregal (southern CDMX) to 21 µg/m³ at Xalostoc (in México State). PM10 annual mean was 41 µg/m³.
- Notas
- About 4× the WHO 2021 guideline (5 µg/m³) and double the incoming Mexican NOM-025 annual limit of 10 µg/m³ (effective 2026). Highest concentrations occur in the dry-cold season (Nov–Feb) driven by thermal inversions and holiday fireworks; the rainy summer is much cleaner. Value is the metropolitan-area (ZMVM) network mean — no separate CDMX-proper city figure is published, but the southern CDMX stations run somewhat below the metro mean.
03Cost of living (single, excl. rent)
Medellínmejor
$705/mo
DANE — línea de pobreza y clasificación por ingreso 2025 (basket anchor), CPI-consistent
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2025
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Curated single-person non-rent basket (food, utilities, urban transport, mobile+internet, modest leisure and misc.) for a foreign remote worker in a major Colombian city, anchored on DANE 2025 income bands (national poverty line 482,041 COP/mo; middle-class per-capita spending 853,608–4,596,352 COP/mo) and typical published utility/transport/mobile tariffs. Estimated ≈ 2,360,000 COP/mo ÷ 3,349.7 COP/USD (ECB EUR/COP 3,817.83 ÷ EUR/USD 1.1399, fx-rates 2026-07-02) ≈ 705 USD. Curated estimate — DANE has not published a 2025/2026 one-person-household consumption line comparable to Poland's GUS figure; to be refined from ENPH microdata.
Mexico City
$780/mo
INEGI — ENIGH 2024 (gasto corriente monetario), scaled to a single-person basket
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 may 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- ENIGH 2024 average household monetary current spending was 47,674 MXN/quarter ≈ 15,891 MXN/month across an average 3.4-person household. Removing housing rent, and taking the categories a single person still bears in full (food, utilities, transport, communications, personal care, leisure) at single-person rather than strict per-capita levels, gives ≈ 13,700 MXN/month for one person excluding rent. Converted at 17.559 MXN/USD (ECB EUR 20.0153 / USD 1.1399, 2026-07-02) ≈ $780/month. National average; Mexico City runs higher, smaller cities lower. See cost-breakdown for the itemised basket.
04Climate comfort
Medellín
2/12 mo
SettleMetric computation over climate-normals
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2020
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Months with mean daily max 15–28°C AND precipitation < 150mm: only Jan (27.9°C, 72mm) and Dec (27.3°C, 115mm) qualify = 2. Ten months miss the strict test — seven exceed the 28°C max ceiling by a fraction (28.1–28.7°C) and the rest carry >150mm rain (Mar–May, Sep–Nov are the two wet seasons). This understates real comfort: Medellín's temperature is famously stable and spring-like all year (its 'Eternal Spring' reputation); the criterion penalises it for a whisker over 28°C at the warm valley-floor station and for heavy tropical rainfall, not for genuine seasonality. Users should read the raw normals alongside this score.
Mexico Citymejor
12/12 mo
SettleMetric computation over climate-normals (Tacubaya WMO 76680)
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2020
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Months with mean daily max 15–28 °C and precipitation < 150 mm. All 12 months qualify: max ranges 20.8–26.6 °C every month (Mexico City's high-altitude tropical climate has almost no seasonal temperature swing), and the wettest month (July, 133.2 mm) stays under the 150 mm threshold. = 12.
03
La comparación completa
Abre cualquier dato para ver qué mide, cómo de reciente es y el rastro completo de fuentes de ambas ciudades.
01
Impuestos
CriterioMedellínMexico City
01+−Freelancer tax burden% effective burden at €60k/year self-employed profileMedellín17,3Mexico Citymejor2
Qué mide esto
Effective total burden (income tax + mandatory social and health contributions) for a solo IT freelancer with €60,000/year revenue and 10% deductible expenses, using the most favourable eligible scheme in the country's tax-schemes data. Computed by the SettleMetric tax engine; recorded as a curated value with the winning scheme id in method.
Cuanto más bajo, mejor· % effective burden at €60k/year self-employed profile· se vuelve a verificar cada 365 días
Medellín
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 ene 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Best eligible scheme co-rst-professional at €60,000 = 229,069,800 COP (3,817.83 COP/EUR), ≈ 4,374 UVT → SIMPLE professional-services band 0–6,000 UVT = 5.9% of gross = 13,515,118; plus mandatory independent social security on IBC = 40% of income: health 12.5% of IBC = 5% of gross = 11,453,490 and pension 16% of IBC = 6.4% of gross = 14,660,467. Total = 39,629,075 COP → 17.3%. Consistent with the co-rst-professional worked examples. Note: at this income IBC ≈ 4.36 SMMLV ≥ 4, so the Fondo de Solidaridad Pensional adds ≈ 0.4% (all-in ≈ 17.7%); and the SIMPLE pension discount, if claimed, would lower it further — both unmodeled, so 17.3% is the modeled, conservative-of-those figure.
Mexico City
SettleMetric tax engine over official 2026 rules (Art. 113-E LISR, SAT)
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 ene 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Best eligible scheme mx-resico at €60,000 = 1,200,918 MXN (ECB 20.0153 MXN/EUR, 2026-07-02). RESICO annual income in the $1M–$2.5M band → 2.0% of gross with no deductions → ISR 24,018.36 MXN, and no mandatory social contributions (IMSS is voluntary in Mexico). Total burden 24,018.36 / 1,200,918 = 2.0%. The general professional-activity regime would tax the same profile at roughly 20.7% (see mx-actividad-profesional), so RESICO is decisively better for a low-cost freelancer.
02
Legalización
CriterioMedellínMexico City
01+−Remote-work legalization easeMedellínmejorDedicated nomad visaMexico CityLong stay path
Qué mide esto
Best available legalization route for a location-independent earner with a median (non-EU, non-US) passport, classified from this country's legalization-paths data: dedicated digital-nomad visa; general freelance/self-employment permit; realistic long-stay path (e.g. renewable temporary residence); only short visa-free/tourist stays; effectively none.
Valorado por categoría· se vuelve a verificar cada 180 días
Medellín
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores — Resolución 5477 de 2022, art. 46 (Visa V Nómada digital)
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 22 jul 2022
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Notas
- Colombia has a dedicated Visa V for digital nomads (trabajo remoto/teletrabajo for foreign companies), valid up to 2 years, income requirement 3 SMMLV. Longer-term freelancers can also use the accumulating Visa M — Profesional independiente (5 SMMLV) toward permanent residence.
Mexico City
SRE — Visa de residente temporal por solvencia económica (Consulado de México en España)
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 4 jul 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Notas
- Mexico has no dedicated digital-nomad visa. The established long-stay route for remote workers is the temporary-resident visa (residente temporal) granted on proof of economic solvency — foreign income or savings qualify, and there is no minimum physical-presence rule. Renewable up to 4 years, then convertible to permanent residence. See legalization path mx-temporary-resident-solvency.
03
Coste de vida
CriterioMedellínMexico City
01+−Cost of living (single, excl. rent)USD/month, single person, excluding rentMedellínmejor705Mexico City780
Qué mide esto
Monthly cost of a defined single-person basket (food, transport, utilities, mobile+internet, modest leisure) excluding rent, curated from national statistics office price data and large local retailers' published prices, converted to USD at the ECB rate recorded in fx-rates. The method field of each value itemizes the basket inputs.
Cuanto más bajo, mejor· USD/month, single person, excluding rent· se vuelve a verificar cada 365 días
Medellín
DANE — línea de pobreza y clasificación por ingreso 2025 (basket anchor), CPI-consistent
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2025
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Curated single-person non-rent basket (food, utilities, urban transport, mobile+internet, modest leisure and misc.) for a foreign remote worker in a major Colombian city, anchored on DANE 2025 income bands (national poverty line 482,041 COP/mo; middle-class per-capita spending 853,608–4,596,352 COP/mo) and typical published utility/transport/mobile tariffs. Estimated ≈ 2,360,000 COP/mo ÷ 3,349.7 COP/USD (ECB EUR/COP 3,817.83 ÷ EUR/USD 1.1399, fx-rates 2026-07-02) ≈ 705 USD. Curated estimate — DANE has not published a 2025/2026 one-person-household consumption line comparable to Poland's GUS figure; to be refined from ENPH microdata.
Mexico City
INEGI — ENIGH 2024 (gasto corriente monetario), scaled to a single-person basket
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 may 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- ENIGH 2024 average household monetary current spending was 47,674 MXN/quarter ≈ 15,891 MXN/month across an average 3.4-person household. Removing housing rent, and taking the categories a single person still bears in full (food, utilities, transport, communications, personal care, leisure) at single-person rather than strict per-capita levels, gives ≈ 13,700 MXN/month for one person excluding rent. Converted at 17.559 MXN/USD (ECB EUR 20.0153 / USD 1.1399, 2026-07-02) ≈ $780/month. National average; Mexico City runs higher, smaller cities lower. See cost-breakdown for the itemised basket.
Gasto mensual por categoría (sin alquiler)
Medellín
Mexico City
DANE income/spending bands 2025 (basket anchor)
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2025
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Illustrative split of the ≈$705/mo single-person non-rent basket into typical urban categories, anchored on DANE 2025 income bands and published utility/transport/mobile tariffs, converted at 3,349.7 COP/USD. Categories sum to ≈$705. Curated estimate, not a DANE household-budget survey line; national/major-city average — El Poblado-tier neighbourhoods run higher.
INEGI — ENIGH 2024 spending shares, scaled to a single-person basket
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 may 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- ENIGH 2024 monthly household spending shares (food/bev/tobacco 37.7%, transport & communications 19.5%, education & entertainment 9.6%, housing & services 9.1%, clothing, health etc.), rebased to a single-person no-rent basket and converted at 17.559 MXN/USD. Categories sum to the ≈$780/month cost-of-living aggregate. National average — a rough guide, not a survey of one-person households (INEGI does not headline a single-person series).
01Food & non-alcoholic drinks
Medellín
—
Mexico City
$300
02Food & groceries
Medellín
$230
Mexico City
—
03Restaurants & eating out
Medellín
$110
Mexico Citymás barato
$80
04Transport
Medellín
—
Mexico City
$130
05Recreation & culture
Medellín
$90
Mexico City
—
06Recreation, culture & education
Medellín
—
Mexico City
$90
07Household & personal care
Medellín
$85
Mexico City
—
08Utilities (electricity, water, gas)
Medellín
$75
Mexico City
—
09Transport (urban)
Medellín
$70
Mexico City
—
10Utilities (electricity, gas, water)
Medellín
—
Mexico City
$70
11Mobile & home internet
Medellín
$45
Mexico City
—
12Personal care & household goods
Medellín
—
Mexico City
$45
13Communications (mobile + internet)
Medellín
—
Mexico City
$40
14Health (out-of-pocket)
Medellín
—
Mexico City
$25
Total (sin alquiler)
Medellín$705/mes
Mexico City$780/mes
04
Vivienda
Alquiler por tipo de vivienda
Alquiler de oferta: precio en el centro, con el de fuera del centro entre paréntesis ($/mes).
Medellín
Mexico City
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 30 jun 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Matrix of average unfurnished asking rents by apartment type × location, mid-2026, converted at the official TRM 3,334.93 COP/USD (2026-07-04). 'Center' = desirable central/mid core (Laureles / Estadio, stratum 4–5): apartaestudio ≈1.85M / 1BR ≈2.6M / 2BR ≈3.4M / 3BR ≈4.5M COP. 'Outside' = cheaper outer neighbourhoods (Belén, Envigado, La América, stratum 3–4): apartaestudio ≈1.5M / 1BR ≈2.0M / 2BR ≈2.7M / 3BR ≈3.5M COP. Room-count midpoints derived transparently from portal ranges; the 1BR-center cell equals the scored rent-1br-center value.
- Notas
- Asking prices, unfurnished, before administración (COP 150k–800k) and utilities (COP 150k–300k). Premium El Poblado sits well above the 'center' column shown (a 1BR there is ≈$1,050–1,500). Studio/apartaestudio figures rest on fewer listings than 1BR/2BR, so treat those cells as indicative.
Inmuebles24 Índice de Venta & Renta — Reporte de mercado Ciudad de México, enero 2026
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 ene 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- City-wide asking rent per m² from the Inmuebles24 CDMX index (Jan 2026: 329 MXN/m²/mo at the 65 m² 2BR reference; 299 MXN/m²/mo at 100 m² 3BR) applied to typical sizes (studio 32 m², 1BR 48 m², 2BR 65 m², 3BR 100 m²) for the city-wide-by-type base. Central vs outside split derived from the index's own per-alcaldía averages: center ×1.18 (mean of the core alcaldías Cuauhtémoc 28,373, Miguel Hidalgo 26,986, Benito Juárez 20,540 MXN/mo ÷ city avg 21,398), outside ×0.82 (mean of the residential ring: Álvaro Obregón, Coyoacán, Azcapotzalco, Iztacalco, Gustavo A. Madero). Converted at 17.559 MXN/USD (fx-rates 2026-07-02).
- Notas
- Both the by-room-type and the central/outside cells are DERIVED — no single Inmuebles24 table crosses room count with center-vs-outside. The per-m² rates, the 2BR/3BR references, and the per-alcaldía averages are directly published; apartment sizes and the size→per-m² interpolation are assumptions stated in the method. 'Center' = the core alcaldías (Cuauhtémoc, Miguel Hidalgo, Benito Juárez, incl. Roma/Condesa/Polanco/Del Valle); 'outside' = the mid-tier residential ring, excluding the rural southern fringe (Milpa Alta, Tláhuac) which runs cheaper still.
01Estudio
Medellínmás barato
$600$450 fuera del centro
Mexico City
$769$530 fuera del centro
021 dormitorio
Medellínmás barato
$780$600 fuera del centro
Mexico City
$1110$765 fuera del centro
032 dormitorios
Medellínmás barato
$1020$810 fuera del centro
Mexico City
$1441$993 fuera del centro
043 dormitorios
Medellínmás barato
$1350$1050 fuera del centro
Mexico City
$2020$1391 fuera del centro
05
Seguridad
CriterioMedellínMexico City
01+−Homicide rateintentional homicides per 100,000/yearMedellínmejor11,3Mexico City25,6
Qué mide esto
Intentional homicide victims per 100,000 population, latest available year. Country level: UNODC national series. City level: official municipal/police statistics where published; otherwise null (country value shown as country-level).
Cuanto más bajo, mejor· intentional homicides per 100,000/year· se vuelve a verificar cada 730 días
Medellín
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2024
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- 319 homicides in Medellín in 2024 (SISC), 59 fewer than 2023 (−16%); the city's SISC/security-secretariat reported an official rate of 11.3 per 100,000, the lowest among Colombia's main cities and the lowest local rate since the mid-20th century. Victims: 290 men (91%), 28 women (9%).
- Notas
- Municipal SISC figure (city proper). Well below the Colombian national rate (~25/100k) and below Bogotá (~15/100k) in 2024 — a historic low after decades of cartel-era violence — but still several times rich-world capital levels. 2025 figures were trending slightly upward at time of writing; to be re-verified against the SISC year-end 2025 balance.
Mexico City
INEGI — Defunciones por homicidio 2024 (Reporte de resultados, 1-ago-2025)
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2024
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Notas
- 33,241 homicide deaths registered in 2024, rate 25.6 per 100,000 (up from 24.9 in 2023). Highly uneven by state: Colima 123, Morelos 77, Baja California 65 at the top; Yucatán 3, Coahuila 4, Mexico City ~10 at the low end. The national figure masks large regional variation relevant to city choice.
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Clima
CriterioMedellínMexico City
01+−Climate comfortpleasant months/yearMedellín2Mexico Citymejor12
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Number of months whose 1991–2020 climate normals satisfy: mean daily maximum between 15°C and 28°C and monthly precipitation under 150mm. Computed from the city's climate-normals indicator; the raw normals are stored alongside so users can judge by their own taste.
Cuanto más alto, mejor· pleasant months/year· se vuelve a verificar cada 3650 días
Medellín
SettleMetric computation over climate-normals
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2020
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Months with mean daily max 15–28°C AND precipitation < 150mm: only Jan (27.9°C, 72mm) and Dec (27.3°C, 115mm) qualify = 2. Ten months miss the strict test — seven exceed the 28°C max ceiling by a fraction (28.1–28.7°C) and the rest carry >150mm rain (Mar–May, Sep–Nov are the two wet seasons). This understates real comfort: Medellín's temperature is famously stable and spring-like all year (its 'Eternal Spring' reputation); the criterion penalises it for a whisker over 28°C at the warm valley-floor station and for heavy tropical rainfall, not for genuine seasonality. Users should read the raw normals alongside this score.
Mexico City
SettleMetric computation over climate-normals (Tacubaya WMO 76680)
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2020
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Months with mean daily max 15–28 °C and precipitation < 150 mm. All 12 months qualify: max ranges 20.8–26.6 °C every month (Mexico City's high-altitude tropical climate has almost no seasonal temperature swing), and the wettest month (July, 133.2 mm) stays under the 150 mm threshold. = 12.
02+−Air quality (PM2.5)µg/m³, annual mean PM2.5Medellínmejor15,5Mexico City20
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Annual mean fine-particulate (PM2.5) concentration for the city, latest available year. Anchors follow the WHO 2021 guideline (5 µg/m³ → 10) through the EU limit value territory (25 µg/m³ → 2). Preferred source: European Environment Agency city-level air quality data; outside Europe: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database or the national monitoring network.
Cuanto más bajo, mejor· µg/m³, annual mean PM2.5· se vuelve a verificar cada 730 días
Medellín
Área Metropolitana del Valle de Aburrá (AMVA) — SIATA, Informe Anual de Calidad del Aire 2023
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2023
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- City annual mean PM2.5 for Medellín ≈ 15.5 µg/m³ (2023) from the official AMVA/SIATA Valle de Aburrá monitoring network annual report; the network reports a further fall to ≈14.8 µg/m³ in 2024. Figure attributed to the AMVA 2023 annual report; the exact per-station table should be reconciled against the report PDF.
- Notas
- ≈3× the WHO 2021 annual guideline (5 µg/m³) and above the 2030 EU limit (10), within the current EU limit (25). The Aburrá valley traps pollution and suffers seasonal contingency episodes (Feb–Mar, Oct) when levels spike several-fold; neighbouring Bello and Envigado read higher than Medellín proper. Air quality is a genuine drawback of the location. To be re-verified against the AMVA 2024 annual report.
Mexico City
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2023
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Network-wide annual mean PM2.5 for the Zona Metropolitana del Valle de México in 2023 = 20 µg/m³ (stations with ≥65% data sufficiency), reported by the official CDMX government air-quality authority (SEDEMA, Dirección de Monitoreo Atmosférico) using U.S. EPA reference-method monitors. Per-station annual means ranged from 15 µg/m³ at Pedregal (southern CDMX) to 21 µg/m³ at Xalostoc (in México State). PM10 annual mean was 41 µg/m³.
- Notas
- About 4× the WHO 2021 guideline (5 µg/m³) and double the incoming Mexican NOM-025 annual limit of 10 µg/m³ (effective 2026). Highest concentrations occur in the dry-cold season (Nov–Feb) driven by thermal inversions and holiday fireworks; the rainy summer is much cleaner. Value is the metropolitan-area (ZMVM) network mean — no separate CDMX-proper city figure is published, but the southern CDMX stations run somewhat below the metro mean.
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Sanidad
CriterioMedellínMexico City
01+−Private healthcare costUSD/year, comprehensive private insurance premium, healthy 35-year-oldMedellínmejor1250Mexico City1800
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Median of at least three publicly quoted annual premiums for comprehensive private medical insurance (outpatient + inpatient, ~$100k coverage, small deductible) for a healthy 35-year-old resident foreigner, from local and international insurers. Method field lists the insurers quoted.
Cuanto más bajo, mejor· USD/year, comprehensive private insurance premium, healthy 35-year-old· se vuelve a verificar cada 365 días
Medellín
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 4 jul 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Comprehensive private cover in Colombia layers on top of the mandatory contributory system (EPS): a 'medicina prepagada' or voluntary health plan (Sura, Colsanitas, Coomeva) with outpatient + inpatient access for a healthy 35-year-old runs roughly 250,000–450,000 COP/month; midpoint ≈ 350,000 COP/mo ≈ 4,200,000 COP/yr ≈ 1,254 USD at 3,349.7 COP/USD (range ≈ $895–$1,610). Curated market midpoint — Colombian prepaid-medicine premiums are age/plan-banded and quoted on request, not from a public engine.
- Notas
- Residents affiliated to an EPS already have universal contributory cover; prepaid medicine buys faster access, private hospitals and broader networks. Premiums exclude the mandatory 12.5% health contribution (counted in the tax burden), not an insurance premium. International (IPMI) plans cost several times more.
Mexico City
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 4 jul 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Comprehensive 'gastos médicos mayores' plans (major-medical: hospitalisation, surgery, plus outpatient riders) from GNP, AXA México, Allianz and Mapfre run roughly $120–190 USD/month for a healthy adult under 35 → ≈$1,440–$2,280/year. Midpoint ≈ $1,800/year. Premiums are quoted individually (age, deductible, hospital network), so this is a curated market midpoint, not a public engine quote. Mexican medical inflation is high (est. ~15% for 2026), pushing premiums up 20–40% year on year.
- Notas
- Comprehensive (with-inpatient) basis per the data-quality lesson. Residents also have free access to public IMSS-Bienestar/IMSS care, but private cover is the norm for expats/freelancers who want private-hospital access. Deductibles and coinsurance apply on top of the premium.
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Dinero y cripto
CriterioMedellínMexico City
01+−Crypto regulationMedellínmejorLegal regulatedMexico CityRestricted
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Own classification of the legal status of holding, trading and cashing out cryptocurrency for individuals: legal-friendly (legal with clear, favourable rules or explicit tax exemptions), legal-regulated (legal under standard licensing/AML and taxation), restricted (partial bans: payments or banking access prohibited), banned (holding/trading prohibited). Classified from national regulators' and central banks' official positions.
Valorado por categoría· se vuelve a verificar cada 180 días
Medellín
DIAN — Concepto Unificado 100202208-1621 de 2023 sobre criptoactivos (tratamiento tributario)
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 8 ene 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Notas
- Crypto is legal to hold/trade but is not legal tender (Banco de la República); the DIAN treats it as an intangible asset. Gains taxed as ordinary income (up to 39%) if held <2 years, or as ganancia ocasional (15%) if held ≥2 years; holdings must be declared. From tax-year 2025 the DIAN (Resolución 000240) requires registered virtual-asset service providers to report Colombian users' operations; the SFC administers a PSAV registry. No consumer ban; banking access can be uneven.
Mexico City
Banco de México — Circular 4/2019 (Disposiciones aplicables a operaciones con activos virtuales)
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 8 mar 2019
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Notas
- Holding and trading crypto is legal for individuals and gains are taxed under ISR as enajenación de bienes. But virtual assets are not legal tender, and Banxico Circular 4/2019 bars banks and regulated fintechs from offering crypto services (custody, exchange, transmission) to the public; no institution has been authorised. Individuals buy/sell through unregulated exchanges that cannot hold client fiat. Classified 'restricted' because banking-channel access to crypto is prohibited, not merely regulated.
02+−Financial control levelMedellínModerateMexico CityModerate
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Own composite of state control over personal money flows: currency/capital controls (IMF AREAER), restrictions on foreign accounts and transfers, mandatory income declaration scope for residents, cash payment limits, banking access for foreigners. Low = free movement of personal funds and easy non-resident banking; very-high = strict capital controls and pervasive reporting. Method field on each value lists the inputs used.
Valorado por categoría· se vuelve a verificar cada 365 días
Medellín
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 26 feb 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Composite: the COP is convertible and there are no hard capital controls, but Colombia keeps a foreign-exchange regime (régimen cambiario) in which certain operations (external credit, foreign investment, some import/export) must be channelled through the regulated exchange market (IMC or a Banco de la República compensation account) with a declaración de cambio; residents may hold foreign accounts and compensation accounts. Service-export income (freelancer earnings) is not subject to mandatory channelling but reporting/traceability rules apply. Standard AML/UIAF and tax-reporting scope. Rated 'moderate' (freer than capital-control regimes, more paperwork than fully open EU/OECD peers).
Mexico City
SAT — declaración anual / obligations, and Banco de México FX regime (composite)
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 4 jul 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Composite: the peso floats freely and is fully convertible with no capital or currency controls (IMF AREAER classifies MXN as free-floating); non-residents can open Mexican bank accounts (requires RFC/CURP and proof of address, more friction than the EU). No FBAR-style personal foreign-account disclosure regime, though CRS applies via banks and Mexico joined the crypto CARF reporting from 2026. Cash caps: purchases in cash above ~$100,000–500,000 MXN trigger anti-money-laundering reporting by the counterparty (Ley Antilavado), and cash payments above certain limits are non-deductible. Rated 'moderate' rather than 'low' because of RFC-gated banking, mandatory e-invoicing (CFDI) capturing most income, and AML cash-reporting thresholds.
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Infraestructura
CriterioMedellínMexico City
01+−Domestic delivery qualityMedellínGoodMexico CityGood
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Quality of in-country parcel delivery. excellent = nationwide next-day widely available, dense parcel-locker network, real-time tracking standard; good = 1–3 day delivery, lockers in major cities; basic = reliable but slow (3–7 days), mostly to-door or post-office pickup; poor = unreliable delivery, street addresses often unusable, informal workarounds common. Classified from official service/coverage data of the national postal operator and the two largest private carriers; inputs itemized in each value's method field.
Valorado por categoría· se vuelve a verificar cada 730 días
Medellín
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 30 jun 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Composite of the national operator (4-72 / Servicios Postales Nacionales) plus the dominant private networks (Servientrega, Coordinadora, Interrapidísimo, TCC, Envía) that provide dense nationwide door-to-door and office-pickup coverage with tracking; 1–3 day delivery between major cities is standard, longer to rural/remote municipalities. Parcel-locker networks are limited compared with Europe. Rated 'good' (reliable major-city coverage, not next-day-everywhere with dense lockers).
Mexico City
Estafeta / FedEx México / Correos de México (MexPost) official service pages (composite)
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 4 jul 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Classified from carrier service/coverage pages: FedEx México, DHL, Estafeta and Redpack offer next-day delivery in major cities with standard real-time tracking; Correos de México/MexPost and Estafeta reach rural areas but 'zonas extendidas' incur reexpedición surcharges and slower delivery; OXXO/convenience-store pickup is widespread. Landed on 'good' (not 'excellent') because coverage is dense in metros but slower and pricier in the rural long tail, and there is no nationwide parcel-locker network on the European scale.
- Notas
- Next-day in major cities; slower and surcharged in hard-to-reach zones.
02+−International delivery easeMedellínSignificant frictionMexico CitySignificant friction
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Ease of receiving goods from abroad. seamless = major international carriers deliver door-to-door, meaningful duty-free de-minimis threshold, customs clearance predictable in days; minor-friction = carriers present but low de-minimis, extra paperwork or routine delays; significant-friction = frequent customs holds, high brokerage fees, some marketplaces refuse to ship; unreliable = parcels regularly lost or blocked, informal import channels dominate. De-minimis thresholds and clearance rules from the national customs authority (official source, cite the regulation); carrier presence from carriers' official pages.
Valorado por categoría· se vuelve a verificar cada 365 días
Medellín
DIAN — modalidad de tráfico postal y envíos urgentes; de minimis USD 200 (Decreto 1090 de 2020)
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 ago 2020
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Notas
- Major carriers (DHL, FedEx, UPS) serve Colombia. De-minimis: shipments with FOB ≤ USD 200 are duty-free under the tráfico-postal/envíos-urgentes modality (Decreto 1090/2020), but the VAT (IVA) exemption applies only to origins under a free-trade agreement (e.g. USA, South Korea); from other origins IVA is charged. Consignments are capped (≤ USD 2,000, ≤ 50 kg, ≤ 6 identical units). Customs holds, brokerage fees and slower clearance are common → significant friction for non-FTA imports.
Mexico City
US Dept. of Commerce (trade.gov) — Mexico Customs Regulations (de minimis) & SAT RFC courier rule
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 15 oct 2024
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Notas
- Major carriers (DHL, FedEx, UPS) deliver door-to-door, but import friction is real: de minimis is only USD $50 (duty- and VAT-free); USMCA-origin goods $50.01–$117 are duty-free but still bear 16% VAT; above $117 both duties and VAT apply. Since 2024-10-15 couriers require the consignee's RFC (Mexican tax ID) to use the simplified clearance procedure, and 2026 rules tightened low-value/textile imports. Customs holds and brokerage fees are common, so cross-border receiving is workable but bureaucratic.
03+−Internet speedMbps, median fixed downloadMedellín17,4Mexico Citymejor18,2
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Median fixed-broadband download speed over the trailing 6 months from M-Lab NDT open data (CC0), aggregated at country or city level. Not comparable with Ookla figures (different test methodology) — do not mix sources within this criterion.
Cuanto más alto, mejor· Mbps, median fixed download· se vuelve a verificar cada 365 días
Medellín
M-Lab NDT country aggregates for Colombia
Datos abiertos
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2023
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Mean of the daily country median download (download_MED) values in M-Lab's public statistics API for Colombia; the published file covers the first 16 days of 2023 (≈181,872 tests), mean ≈ 17.4 Mbps; the 2024 file (first 16 days) is consistent at ≈ 16.9 Mbps.
- Notas
- M-Lab NDT is single-stream and reads well below Ookla-style figures — comparable only within this criterion. M-Lab's public stats API exposes only a partial-year window for Colombia, so this is a limited-coverage figure to be refined via BigQuery. Urban fibre plans advertise 100–900 Mbps; the M-Lab median reflects the mixed national access base.
Mexico City
M-Lab NDT country aggregates for Mexico
Datos abiertos
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2023
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Median of the daily country median download values (download_MED) from M-Lab's public NDT statistics for Mexico, 2023 (the latest full year in M-Lab's published stats API; 2024+ files not yet available). Daily medians cluster tightly around 18 Mbps over hundreds of thousands of tests.
- Notas
- M-Lab NDT is a single-stream test and reads well below Ookla-style marketing figures (Mexican fixed connections commonly sell 50–200 Mbps) — comparable only within this criterion. Fixed broadband quality varies widely: fibre is strong in Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey, weaker in smaller towns.
10
Idioma
CriterioMedellínMexico City
01+−English proficiencyMedellínLowMexico CityLow
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Own banding of how far English gets a resident in daily life (government offices, healthcare, housing, services). Informed by EF EPI band (research source, cited with attribution, not republished) plus official language status and service-sector realities. Values are our bands, not EF scores.
Valorado por categoría· se vuelve a verificar cada 730 días
Medellín
EF EPI 2025 — Colombia rank 76/123, score 480 (Low Proficiency band)
Estudio
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 nov 2025
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Notas
- Own band informed by EF EPI 2025 (attribution: EF Education First); score 480 sits in EF's 'Low Proficiency' band. Spanish is the working language for government, healthcare and most services; English is workable in tourist/expat pockets of Bogotá and Medellín and in tech/BPO circles but not broadly across daily life.
Mexico City
EF EPI 2025 — Mexico (score 440, rank 103/123, Low band)
Estudio
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 nov 2025
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Notas
- Own band informed by EF EPI 2025 (attribution: EF Education First): Mexico scores 440 and ranks 103rd, in EF's 'Low' band. English is workable in tourist zones, international business, and among younger urban professionals, but government offices, healthcare, and everyday services are conducted in Spanish; functional Spanish is effectively required for daily life.
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Educación
CriterioMedellínMexico City
01+−International schoolsaccredited international schools, countMedellín8Mexico Citymejor19
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Count of international schools in the metro area accredited by or member of IB, CIS, COBIS, or an equivalent national-curriculum-abroad body (verified against the accreditor's public registry, not aggregator sites).
Cuanto más alto, mejor· accredited international schools, count· se vuelve a verificar cada 730 días
Medellín
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 4 jul 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Count of internationally-accredited schools in the Medellín metro (city + Envigado/Itagüí/El Retiro). Two verified directly against their accreditor's own registry: Lycée Français de Medellín (AEFE réseau, homologué — aefe.gouv.fr) and Deutsche Schule Medellín (German ZfA network / Itagüí — pasch-net.de). Six further internationally-accredited schools are well attested across sources as IB / Cambridge / CIS members: The Columbus School (Envigado, IB/US), Vermont School (IB), Colegio Colombo Británico (Envigado, IB), Colegio Montessori (IB PYP), The New School (Envigado, IB), and Marymount School (Cambridge curriculum + CIS/NEASC accreditation).
- Notas
- Only the AEFE and ZfA schools were confirmed one-by-one against the accreditor's public registry; the IB and Cambridge/CIS members' official directories (ibo.org, cambridgeinternational.org, cis.org) blocked automated access, so those six rest on strongly consistent secondary reporting pending direct registry reconciliation. The true accredited-international total for the Aburrá valley may be a little higher (several additional bilingual schools hold IB or Cambridge status). Count excludes purely bilingual schools with no external accreditation.
Mexico City
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 4 jul 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Deduplicated count of Mexico City metro schools accredited by/member of the qualifying bodies (IB, Cambridge, AEFE, German Auslandsschulwesen, US/College Board, CIS/COBIS). IB finder lists 17 IB World Schools in the CDMX metro (Greengates, Eton, The American School Foundation, Edron Academy, Westhill, Peterson, Olinca, Churchill, Winpenny, Instituto Thomas Jefferson ×2, Escuela Lomas Altas, Colegio Lomas Hill, Atid, Tomás Alva Edison, Schweizerschule, British American School). Added, not in the IB list: Lycée Franco-Mexicain (AEFE-homologated, aefe.gouv.fr) and Colegio Alemán Alexander von Humboldt (German ZfA 'Excellent German School', 3 metro campuses counted as one institution). = 19.
- Notas
- ±2 uncertainty. The IB finder may include candidate (not-yet-authorised) schools; several IB schools also hold Cambridge/US accreditation but are counted once; Cambridge-only or CIS/COBIS-only schools not in the IB list may be undercounted. Count spans the wider CDMX metropolitan area (some campuses, e.g. Greengates and Colegio Alemán's Lomas Verdes site, sit in adjoining México State suburbs).