México, Mexico · North America
Cuautitlán Izcalli works well as a base: 10 minutes from Cuautitlán, 25km from Chapultepec Castle.
Cuautitlán Izcalli is in México, Mexico, with about 560,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Cuautitlán, about 5 km away.
Cuautitlán Izcalli (Spanish pronunciation: [kwawtiˈtlan isˈkaʎi]) is a city and one of the 125 municipalities that make up the State of Mexico. Its municipal seat is Cuautitlán Izcalli. It is located in the Valley of Mexico area, and is part of the Metropolitan area of Mexico City. It borders to the north andRead more
northwest with Tepotzotlán, to the northeast and to the east with Cuautitlán, to the south with Tlalnepantla de Baz, to the southeast with Tultitlán, to the southwest with Atizapán de Zaragoza and to the west with the municipality of Nicolás Romero.
In 2026, the United Nations (UN) through its UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) placed the city and municipality in position number 20 of its M20 list, which listed the Mexican cities, municipalities and mayoralties with the greatest well-being and human development index (HDI).
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Within an hour or so of Cuautitlán Izcalli: Museo Nacional del Virreinato (8 km), Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe (20 km), Museo Nacional de Antropología (24 km), Pujol (24 km).
The nearest famous roads are Paso de Cortés.
Cuautitlán Izcalli is in México, Mexico, about 5 km from Cuautitlán.
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Essential numbers in Mexico
Green Angels (free tourist roadside assistance on federal highways): 078.
Full driving guide for Mexico8 notable places within an hour's drive.
museum
A vast former Jesuit college at Tepotzotlán whose Church of San Francisco Javier holds Mexico's most overwhelming set of gilded Churrigueresque altarpieces: a wall-to-wall gold explosion, plus colonial art across the cloisters.
8 km · about 15 min drive
cathedral
The world's most-visited Catholic pilgrimage site, receiving over 10 million visitors annually.
20 km · about 25 min drive
museum
The world's greatest museum of pre-Columbian art and archaeology, home to the Aztec Sun Stone and stunning Maya artifacts.
24 km · about 30 min drive
restaurant
Enrique Olvera's Polanco restaurant, where the signature mole madre is a black mole reheated for thousands of days and served as a single ring beside a fresh one. Two Michelin stars; book months ahead.
24 km · about 25 min drive
castle
A hilltop royal castle built in 1785, the only royal castle in the Americas, now housing the National Museum of History.
25 km · about 30 min drive
landmark
One of the largest public plazas in the world and the historic heart of Mexico City, surrounded by the National Palace and Metropolitan Cathedral.
25 km · about 30 min drive
cathedral
The largest cathedral in the Americas, built over three centuries on the north side of the Zócalo in central Mexico City.
25 km · about 30 min drive
restaurant
An 18th-century Mexico City palace sheathed on three sides in blue-and-white Puebla Talavera tile, its glass-roofed courtyard now the flagship Sanborns restaurant: breakfast under Orozco's staircase mural.
25 km · about 30 min drive
Year-round
Tropical latitude: plan around the wet season rather than temperature.
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