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Brazil vs Mexico
Price level and homicide-based safety head to head, plus every ICP category both Brazil and Mexico publish. Statistics, not reviews.
1Visa-free traveltourist stays
Do I need a visa for Brazil or Mexico
Tourist entry rules in both directions: a passport from Brazil travelling to Mexico, and a passport from Mexico travelling to Brazil.
Tourist stays only, refreshed with each release. Long stays always need a consular check.
Scorecard
Brazil takes 6 of the 8 lines and Mexico 2. The widest gap is eating out price level, 73%.
Lower wins for prices and homicides, higher for income. Lines within 2% count as level.
3Climate · capital cities
Weather and climate: Brazil against Mexico, month by month
How warm and how wet each month is, averaged over twenty years. Measured in Brasilia and Mexico City — the capital city, not the whole country.
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Brasilia · Brazil Mexico City · Mexico
Warmest
October (25.2°) vs May (17.2°)
Coldest
June (19.7°) vs January (10.4°)
Kinder months to visit
Apr–Oct in Brasilia · Apr–Jul in Mexico City
“Kinder months” is our own reading: a mean of 15–26 °C with moderate rain, measured at the capital.
4The basket
25 price tags, Brazil against Mexico
World = 100, benchmark 2021 — sorted by the size of the gap. Diff is Mexico relative to Brazil.
Third column from the same series; a dash means the country publishes no value for that line.
Download CSV →3Price level · US = 100
on the price-level index · gap 27% · Brazil cheaper
Moving to Mexico
This move costs money: every $1,000 spent in Brazil becomes about $1,270 in Mexico.
8Where this pair sits
Price twins
Brazil’s price zone
Mexico’s price zone
nearest price levels worldwide · tap to compare
Same lifestyle, new price
$1,000 in Brazil buys what $1,273 buys in Mexico
because the same basket of goods and services is priced 21% lower in Brazil — 46.2 against 58.8 on the price-level index. The amount is a round sum for illustration, not a converted price.
average across the economy · estimate
Safety ranks · of 84
#69BRAZIL #73MEXICO
by homicide-based score, safest first
Brazil’s safety zone
Mexico’s safety zone
nearest world ranks · tap to compare
categories cheaper, of the 25 both countries publish · widest gap: Tobacco +87%
9Reader verdict
Your call — which one fits you better?
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10What the numbers say
The split: cost favours Brazil by 27%, the homicide-based score favours Brazil by 5 points. Which matters more depends on whose paycheck crosses the border.
Editor’s note. Averages hide category stories: the widest single gap here is Tobacco at +87%. Budget the move by category, not by the headline number.
Release v2026-08; homicide rates carry their own year per country. World ranks — #69 and #73 of 85 by score.
12Keep exploring
Close cousins
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∑Plan your budget
What your month would cost after the move
Enter what you spend today. Each line is repriced with the ICP ratio for that category — your numbers, our coefficients.
Filling uses average household spending per person in each country, scaled to your household on the OECD-modified scale — the first adult counts as 1.0, every further adult as 0.5, every child as 0.3, because a second person in the same home does not double the rent or the heating. Two adults therefore stand at 1.5 people, not 2.
Where the money moves
Starting figures are actual household spending per person (2025), scaled to your household on the OECD-modified scale and split by typical consumption shares, with category ratios from the same price survey as the basket above. Rent varies enormously by city and district — replace it with the figure you actually pay. Estimate, not advice.
Everything else
All the comparisons on this page’s two sides
All comparisons with Brazil 82
- Brazil vs Albania
- Brazil vs Antigua and Barbuda
- Brazil vs Argentina
- Brazil vs Australia
- Brazil vs Austria
- Brazil vs Bahamas
- Brazil vs Barbados
- Brazil vs Belgium
- Brazil vs Belize
- Brazil vs Bolivia
- Brazil vs Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Brazil vs Bulgaria
- Brazil vs Canada
- Brazil vs Chile
- Brazil vs Colombia
- Brazil vs Costa Rica
- Brazil vs Croatia
- Brazil vs Cyprus
- Brazil vs Czech Republic
- Brazil vs Denmark
- Brazil vs Dominica
- Brazil vs Dominican Republic
- Brazil vs Ecuador
- Brazil vs El Salvador
- Brazil vs Estonia
- Brazil vs Fiji
- Brazil vs Finland
- Brazil vs France
- Brazil vs Germany
- Brazil vs Greece
- Brazil vs Grenada
- Brazil vs Guatemala
- Brazil vs Guyana
- Brazil vs Haiti
- Brazil vs Honduras
- Brazil vs Hungary
- Brazil vs Iceland
- Brazil vs Ireland
- Brazil vs Italy
- Brazil vs Jamaica
- Brazil vs Kiribati
- Brazil vs Latvia
- Brazil vs Lithuania
- Brazil vs Luxembourg
- Brazil vs Malta
- Brazil vs Marshall Islands
- Brazil vs Mexico
- Brazil vs Micronesia
- Brazil vs Montenegro
- Brazil vs Netherlands
- Brazil vs New Zealand
- Brazil vs Nicaragua
- Brazil vs North Macedonia
- Brazil vs Norway
- Brazil vs Palau
- Brazil vs Panama
- Brazil vs Papua New Guinea
- Brazil vs Paraguay
- Brazil vs Peru
- Brazil vs Poland
- Brazil vs Portugal
- Brazil vs Romania
- Brazil vs Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Brazil vs Saint Lucia
- Brazil vs Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Brazil vs Samoa
- Brazil vs Serbia
- Brazil vs Slovakia
- Brazil vs Slovenia
- Brazil vs Solomon Islands
- Brazil vs Spain
- Brazil vs Suriname
- Brazil vs Sweden
- Brazil vs Switzerland
- Brazil vs Tonga
- Brazil vs Trinidad and Tobago
- Brazil vs Tuvalu
- Brazil vs United Kingdom
- Brazil vs United States
- Brazil vs Uruguay
- Brazil vs Vanuatu
- Brazil vs Venezuela
All comparisons with Mexico 82
- Mexico vs Albania
- Mexico vs Antigua and Barbuda
- Mexico vs Argentina
- Mexico vs Australia
- Mexico vs Austria
- Mexico vs Bahamas
- Mexico vs Barbados
- Mexico vs Belgium
- Mexico vs Belize
- Mexico vs Bolivia
- Mexico vs Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Mexico vs Brazil
- Mexico vs Bulgaria
- Mexico vs Canada
- Mexico vs Chile
- Mexico vs Colombia
- Mexico vs Costa Rica
- Mexico vs Croatia
- Mexico vs Cyprus
- Mexico vs Czech Republic
- Mexico vs Denmark
- Mexico vs Dominica
- Mexico vs Dominican Republic
- Mexico vs Ecuador
- Mexico vs El Salvador
- Mexico vs Estonia
- Mexico vs Fiji
- Mexico vs Finland
- Mexico vs France
- Mexico vs Germany
- Mexico vs Greece
- Mexico vs Grenada
- Mexico vs Guatemala
- Mexico vs Guyana
- Mexico vs Haiti
- Mexico vs Honduras
- Mexico vs Hungary
- Mexico vs Iceland
- Mexico vs Ireland
- Mexico vs Italy
- Mexico vs Jamaica
- Mexico vs Kiribati
- Mexico vs Latvia
- Mexico vs Lithuania
- Mexico vs Luxembourg
- Mexico vs Malta
- Mexico vs Marshall Islands
- Mexico vs Micronesia
- Mexico vs Montenegro
- Mexico vs Netherlands
- Mexico vs New Zealand
- Mexico vs Nicaragua
- Mexico vs North Macedonia
- Mexico vs Norway
- Mexico vs Palau
- Mexico vs Panama
- Mexico vs Papua New Guinea
- Mexico vs Paraguay
- Mexico vs Peru
- Mexico vs Poland
- Mexico vs Portugal
- Mexico vs Romania
- Mexico vs Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Mexico vs Saint Lucia
- Mexico vs Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Mexico vs Samoa
- Mexico vs Serbia
- Mexico vs Slovakia
- Mexico vs Slovenia
- Mexico vs Solomon Islands
- Mexico vs Spain
- Mexico vs Suriname
- Mexico vs Sweden
- Mexico vs Switzerland
- Mexico vs Tonga
- Mexico vs Trinidad and Tobago
- Mexico vs Tuvalu
- Mexico vs United Kingdom
- Mexico vs United States
- Mexico vs Uruguay
- Mexico vs Vanuatu
- Mexico vs Venezuela
12Compare
Another pair of countries
Both directions live on the same page — order does not matter.
13Sources & licences
Sources behind this comparison
Our calculations, not official figures.
Sources: World Bank WDI · ICP 2021 · UNODC via WDI · Passport Index · NASA POWER · Eurostat · BLS · Statistics Canada · release v2026-08
Rights holder: The World Bank · World Development Indicators, PA.NUS.PRVT.PLI · reference year 2025 · accessed 22 July 2026 · data.worldbank.org · licence: CC BY 4.0, reuse subject to the World Bank Dataset Terms of Use. Values are reproduced as published; United States = 100 is the indicator’s own base. Every ranking, gap and comment is a Costely calculation. Note: The World Bank does not endorse this site.
Rights holder: The World Bank · International Comparison Program 2021, measure PX.WL · benchmark year 2021, published May 2024 · accessed 22 July 2026 · worldbank.org · licence: CC BY 4.0 — commercial use permitted, subject to the World Bank Dataset Terms of Use. World = 100 — a different base from the summary index above; the two are deliberately not merged.
Rights holder: The World Bank (distribution); original data provider: UNODC (Intentional Homicide, UN-CTS) · WDI VC.IHR.PSRC.P5 · latest available year per country, marked on the page · accessed 22 July 2026 · data.worldbank.org · licence: CC BY 4.0 — these terms describe the World Bank distribution, not a licence we assign to UNODC data. Rates are reproduced exactly as published, per 100,000 population. Note: the homicide-based score — clamp(105 − 20·ln(1 + rate), 0, 100) — is our construction, not a World Bank or UNODC indicator, and covers intentional homicide only.
Rights holder: Passport Index (Arton Capital) · open dataset · accessed 8 August 2026 · passport-index-dataset · licence: MIT — commercial use permitted with attribution. Codes cover tourist stays only; day counts are reproduced as published. Note: entry rules change frequently — always confirm with the consulate before booking.
Rights holder: NASA Langley Research Center · POWER Project, MERRA-2 monthly climatology, T2M and PRECTOTCORR · averaging period January 2001 – December 2020 · accessed 13 August 2026 · power.larc.nasa.gov · U.S. Government work, public domain — free to use, including commercially. Each figure is the model grid cell containing the capital city, reproduced as published. Note: the capital is not the whole country, and the “kinder months to visit” band (15–26 °C mean, moderate rain) is a Costely reading, not a NASA recommendation. NASA does not endorse this site.
Rights holder: European Union, Eurostat · Structure of Earnings Survey, earn_ses_monthly — median and mean gross monthly earnings, all employees, industry, construction and services except public administration · reference year 2022 · accessed 14 August 2026 · ec.europa.eu/eurostat · reuse authorised with acknowledgement of the source, including for commercial purposes. Figures are reproduced as published; PPS values are Eurostat’s own adjustment for price differences between countries. Note: gross pay before tax and social contributions; the survey runs every four years, so 2022 is the latest wave. The European Commission does not endorse this site.
Rights holder: European Union, Eurostat · Structure of earnings survey 2022 (earn_ses22_21), mean monthly earnings by occupation · mean gross monthly earnings in euro, enterprises with 10 employees or more, all ages, both sexes · retrieved 20 August 2026 via the Eurostat dissemination API · ec.europa.eu/eurostat · reuse authorised with acknowledgement of the source, including for commercial purposes. Earnings are reproduced as published; the difference column is a Costely calculation. Note: These are means, not medians, so large salaries pull them up; they are gross, before tax and social contributions. The survey runs every four years, so 2022 is the latest round. Occupations are the nine broad ISCO-08 groups — Europe publishes nothing finer, unlike the United States. Coverage is limited to EU, EFTA and candidate countries. These are means, while the median wage card on the same page comes from the same survey but is a different measure, so the two figures will not match. The European Commission does not endorse this site.
Rights holder: European Union, Eurostat · Purchasing power parities, price level indices by expenditure category (prc_ppp_ind) · EU27_2020 = 100, reference year 2024 · retrieved 20 August 2026 via the Eurostat dissemination API · ec.europa.eu/eurostat · reuse authorised with acknowledgement of the source, including for commercial purposes. Index values are reproduced as published; the difference column is a Costely calculation. Note: these are price levels, not prices — 100 is the EU average of the same year, so a value of 120 means dearer than the EU average by a fifth, and nothing about what a kilo costs. This measure is shown only when both countries of a pair are covered by Eurostat, which is the EU, EFTA and candidate countries; every other pair keeps the World Bank benchmark of 2021 on the World = 100 base, and the two must not be read against each other. A price level index says how a country compares with the EU average in the same year, not what anything costs. Values above 100 mean dearer than the EU average, below 100 cheaper. Coverage is limited to EU, EFTA and candidate countries, and this block is shown only when both countries are covered. The European Commission does not endorse this site.
Rights holder: European Union, Eurostat · Energy prices for household consumers, bi-annual data (nrg_pc_204 electricity, nrg_pc_202 gas) · 2025-S2 · retrieved 20 August 2026 via the Eurostat dissemination API · ec.europa.eu/eurostat · reuse authorised with acknowledgement of the source, including for commercial purposes. Consumption bands: electricity band DC, 2 500-4 999 kWh a year; gas band D2, 20-199 GJ a year; both including all taxes and levies. Prices are in euro and reproduced as published; the difference column is a Costely calculation. Note: coverage is limited to EU, EFTA and candidate countries, because the reuse terms do not extend to data about other countries. Prices are per kilowatt-hour for a typical household band, including all taxes and levies, as published. Where a country has not reported the latest half-year, its most recent reported half-year is used and named in the row. Coverage is limited to EU, EFTA and candidate countries. The European Commission does not endorse this site.
Rights holder: The World Bank · World Development Indicators, household final consumption expenditure per capita · spending per person converted to a month, in current US dollars · accessed not recorded — collected before the plugin stored provenance in the file · data.worldbank.org · licence: CC BY 4.0, reuse subject to the World Bank Dataset Terms of Use. Used only as the starting point of the cost planner; the split by category uses the International Comparison Program 2021 ratios listed above, and household size is scaled on the OECD-modified equivalence scale. Note: The monthly figure and the flag marking an estimated year are Costely calculations. The World Bank does not endorse this site.
Rights holder: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · Current Employment Statistics, national — average weekly earnings of all employees, total private, CES0500000011 · retrieved 14 August 2026 via the BLS Public Data API · bls.gov/ces · work of the U.S. Government, public domain — free to reuse, including commercially. The monthly figure is a Costely conversion from weekly earnings. Note: this is an average, while the European figures are medians, so the two are not measured the same way; averages sit above medians. BLS.gov cannot vouch for data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from BLS.gov. The BLS does not endorse this site.
Rights holder: Statistics Canada · Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours, table 14-10-0223-01, vector 79311153 — average weekly earnings including overtime, all employees, industrial aggregate excluding unclassified businesses, seasonally adjusted · May 2026 · accessed 14 August 2026 · www150.statcan.gc.ca · Statistics Canada Open Licence — reuse and redistribution permitted, including commercially, with acknowledgement of source. Reproduced and distributed on an “as is” basis with the permission of Statistics Canada. The published value is weekly; the monthly figure and the conversion to US dollars are Costely calculations. Note: this is a mean, unlike the Eurostat medians. Statistics Canada does not endorse this website.