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.

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

Tapalpa

Tapalpa is a town and municipality, in Jalisco state of central-western Mexico. The word "Tapalpa" comes from the Nahuatl word "tlapalpan" meaning "land of colors". [...]

Taxco

Nestled in the mountains of northern Guerrero, Taxco is one of Mexico’s most visually stunning colonial towns. Known for its winding cobblestone streets, whitewashed houses [...]