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November is the month people who know the city keep to themselves. It sits at the front edge of the dry season, after the summer storms have stopped and before the December price surge. The air clears. The days are walkable. And the crowds that arrive for Día de Muertos at the start of the month have mostly gone by the second week. Here's what the month actually looks like on the ground. The weather Average highs land around 72°F, roughly 22°C. Evening lows drop to about 46°F

Every review of the Teotihuacán balloon flight says the same thing, which is that it's worth the alarm. That's true and it isn't useful. Here is what the morning actually consists of, so you can decide whether it's yours. The alarm is not five, it's earlier Pickups from Mexico City run roughly between 4:30 and 5:30 in the morning, depending on where you're staying and which operator you're with. The balloon ports are in the Teotihuacán Valley, about forty-five minutes to an h

This is written for a specific reader. You have vacation days you didn't use last year. You're not a person who travels much, or you used to be and then life filled in around it. You've thought about Mexico City more than once and never did anything about it. So this isn't a list of the top ten things to do. It's one week, hour by hour, so you can see exactly what you'd be agreeing to. Why seven days and not four The instinct is to do a long weekend, because a long weekend fe