Mexico City
Ciudad de México
Mexico City’s night is unusually layered: the same evening can hold a mezcal bar, a 1937 dance hall, a rooftop over Juárez and a basement playing hard techno until seven. Roma and Juárez are walkable; everything else is a cheap taxi.
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Open right now
Wednesday 08:51 local
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Rooms published
Saturday
Peak night
18+
Legal drinking age
America/Mexico_City
Through the night
Peaks at 4 of 9 rooms around 18:00.
The rooms
Ranked by editorial score, weighted with freshness, impact and scene. The method is public.
Patrick Miller
High-energy Italo since 1985, with a dance-off circle in the middle of the floor. Friday only. Nothing else in the world is quite like it.
Salón Los Ángeles
"Quien no conoce Los Ángeles, no conoce México." A 1937 ballroom still running danzón and salsa on the original floor.
Departamento
An apartment-block roof turned club, with the city’s best crowd and a queue that starts before midnight.
Yu Yu
A small hi-fi room in Roma with a bar programme as considered as the sound. The most consistently good night in the city.
Licorería Limantour
M.N.Roy
A woven-timber pyramid of a room hidden behind an unmarked door. Small, expensive, and genuinely beautiful.
Fünk Club
Hanky Panky Cocktail Bar
A speakeasy behind a taquería door, and one of the best cocktail rooms in the Americas. Reserve.
Rhodesia Club Social
Zinco Jazz Club
A bank vault basement downtown running live jazz six nights a week. Book, or stand.
Foro Normandie
Bar Oriente
Baltra Bar
Terraza Cha Cha Chá
Mama Rumba
Traspatio
Districts
Where to base yourself, and what each part of the city is for.
Roma Norte
7The dense middle. Cocktail bars, small clubs, and the best walking night in the city.
Juárez
4Rooftops and the newest openings.
Centro Histórico
3The institutions. Dance halls that predate everything around them.
Condesa
1Tree-lined and slightly older. Good for a first drink.
Doctores
0Rougher, later, and where the harder rooms are.
Nearby scenes
Worth a train, a bus, or a change of flight.
One night in Mexico City?
Give the concierge your hours, your budget and your sound. Get a route through the city’s venues, with timings and door tips for each stop.