Towns & Cities

Tourist information about cities in Mexico. Each city post is built to give you a clear and useful snapshot, from year-round climate and local weather to the city’s origin and historical highlights. You’ll also find major sights worth visiting, ideas for one-day trips, practical travel tips on how to get there, and interactive maps to help you explore.

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Salvatierra

San Andrés de Salvatierra, commonly shortened to Salvatierra, is a Mexican city (and municipality) located in the valley of Huatzindeo in the lowlands of the [...]

San Andrés Cholula

San Andrés Cholula is the municipal seat of San Andrés Cholula Municipality located in the center west of the state of Puebla in the central [...]

San Andrés Tuxtla

San Andrés Tuxtla is a city and municipality in the south of the state of Veracruz. San Andrés Tuxtla was founded after an eruption of [...]

San Bartolo Coyotepec

San Bartolo Coyotepec is best known for its black clay pottery. For hundreds of years, pottery has been made here with a gray matte finish, [...]

San Blas

San Blas is both a municipality and municipal seat located on the Pacific coast of Mexico in Nayarit. San Blas is a port and a [...]

San Carlos

San Carlos is a beachfront subdivision within the port city of Guaymas, in the northern state of Sonora in Mexico. It is noted for the [...]

San Cristóbal de las Casas

San Cristóbal de las Casas, also known by its native Tzotzil name, Jovel, is a town and municipality located in the Central Highlands region of [...]

San Felipe

San Felipe is a town on the bay of San Felipe in the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez) in the Mexican state of Baja [...]

San Felipe del Progreso

San Felipe del Progreso is a town and municipality in the northwest of the State of Mexico. It is in the western part of the [...]

San Felipe Torres Mochas

San Felipe Torres Mochas (or just San Felipe) is a small town situated in the Mexican state of Guanajuato. San Felipe is nestled within the [...]

San Francisco del Rincón

San Francisco del Rincón is a city and municipality in the western part of the state of Guanajuato, at an altitude of 1,750 meters above [...]

San José de Gracia

This modest "Magical Town", located on the banks of the Plutarco Elias Calles Dam, has become famous for a stunning sculpture, located on a small [...]

San José del Cabo

San José del Cabo (Saint Joseph of the Cape) is a city located in southern Baja California Sur state, Mexico. It is the seat of [...]

San Juan de los Lagos

San Juan de los Lagos is a city and municipality located in the northeast corner of the state of Jalisco, Mexico, in a region known [...]

San Juan del Río

San Juan del Río is a city and administrative seat of the surrounding San Juan del Río Municipality (pop. 208,462) in the central Mexican state [...]

San Juan Teotihuacán

San Juan Teotihuacán is a town and municipality located in the State of Mexico. It is in the northeast of the Valley of Mexico, 45 [...]

San Luis de la Paz

San Luis de la Paz, and its surrounding municipality of the same name, is a city located in the northeastern part of the state of [...]

San Luis Potosí

San Luis Potosí, commonly called SLP or simply San Luis, is the capital and the most populous city of the Mexican state of San Luis [...]

San Luis Río Colorado

San Luis Río Colorado is a city and its surrounding municipality lying in the northwestern corner of the state of Sonora, Mexico. In the 2010 [...]

San Miguel de Allende

San Miguel de Allende is a picturesque colonial town nestled in the Bajío mountains of central Mexico. Part of the culturally rich Bajío macroregion, San [...]

San Miguel de Cozumel

San Miguel de Cozumel is the largest and main city on the island of Cozumel, being the head of the municipality of the same name [...]

San Nicolás de los Garza

San Nicolás de los Garza, often simply called San Nicolás, is situated in the state of Nuevo León. It is part of the Monterrey Metropolitan [...]

San Patricio Melaque

San Patricio Melaque, or simply Melaque, is a picturesque coastal town located in the state of Jalisco, Mexico. San Patricio Melaque is approximately 40 km [...]

San Pedro Cholula

San Pedro Cholula is a municipality in the Mexican state of Puebla and one of two municipalities which made up the city of Cholula. The [...]

San Pedro Garza García

San Pedro Garza García (also known as San Pedro or Garza García) is a city-municipality of the Mexican state of Nuevo León and part of [...]

Santa Catarina

Santa Catarina is a city in Santa Catarina Municipality in the state of Nuevo León, Mexico that is part of the Monterrey Metropolitan area. [toggle [...]

Santa María Huatulco

Santa María Huatulco is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. It is part of the Pochutla District in the east of the [...]

Sayulita

Sayulita is a village about 40 km (25 miles) north of downtown Puerto Vallarta in the state of Nayarit, Mexico, with a population of approximately [...]

Silao

Silao (official name Silao de la Victoria) is a city in the west-central part of the state of Guanajuato in Mexico. It is the seat [...]

Sisal

Sisal is a small coastal town in northwestern Yucatán, Mexico, celebrated for its white sandy beaches, turquoise waters, and rich natural environment. Historically a colonial [...]

Soledad de Graciano Sánchez

Soledad de Graciano Sánchez is the second-largest city of the state of San Luis Potosí in Mexico. It lies adjacent to the east side of [...]

Sombrerete

Sombrerete is a town and municipality located in the northwest of the Mexican state of Zacatecas, bordering the state of Durango. It was founded as [...]

Tacámbaro

Tacámbaro is a municipality located in the central region of the Mexican state of Michoacán. Its largest city and municipal seat is Heroica Tacámbaro de [...]

Talpa de Allende

Talpa de Allende is a city and municipality in Jalisco, Mexico. Surrounded by pine-covered mountains, Talpa de Allende is a silver mining town founded by [...]

Tampico

Tampico is the fifth-largest city in Tamaulipas, located 10 km from the Gulf of Mexico, on the north bank of the Pánuco River. This strategic [...]

Tapachula

Tapachula de Córdova y Ordóñez, simply known as Tapachula, is a city and municipality located in the far southwest of the state of Chiapas in [...]