Mexico City on Street View

How to recognise the city from a panorama

Mexico shows green-and-yellow taxis, topes — tall speed bumps — and thick bundles of overhead cables. Mexico City sits at 2,240 metres, so mountains are almost always on the horizon.

What the streets look like

Taxis are green and yellow or pink, and the roads carry tall speed bumps called topes. Cables hang in thick bundles and facades are often painted in strong colours.

How to tell it from lookalikes

Topes and taxi colour separate it from Bogotá and Lima. From Spanish cities it differs by terrain and the mountains on the horizon — the capital sits at 2,240 metres.

Useful details

Street names sit on small plates with the colonia, the district name. On clear days the volcanoes to the south-east serve as a landmark.

Geogessr drops you somewhere random in the world — sometimes in Mexico City. Work out where you are and drop a pin on the map.

Country giveaways

A quick check when the panorama looks unfamiliar: these signs are visible almost anywhere in the city.

Country	Mexico
Driving side	right-hand
Licence plates	white · state-issued, the design changes from state to state
Script on signs	Latin
Currency	MXN $
Time zone	UTC−6
Domain	.mx

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