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Monterrey

Monterrey is the third largest city in Mexico and the capital of the state of Nuevo León. It is the commercial, industrial, educational, and transportation hub of northern Mexico, also third in economic importance after Mexico City and Mexico State. Wikivoyage

Population 1,142,952 (Wikidata)

Live guide From your hotel

Before you go

Emergency numbers in Mexico

Visas and entry What your passport needs for Mexico

Getting there

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Still gathering the markets around Monterrey. I'll let you know here when it's all in — or open the live guide.

Best-documented sights

All of them in the guide

Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.

Through the year

  1. Festival Internacional Cine

    April

    (International Film Festival) - since 2005, movies have been the talk of the town during the month of April when film makers come to show off their work

  2. Expo Feria Guadalupe

    May

    (Guadalupe) - For more than 70 years, Regios have gathered each May for northern Mexico's biggest and boldest livestock show and fair. There's food, there's music, there's games, and so much more

Annual events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage (Monterrey); descriptions from Wikipedia where it has one, photos from Wikimedia Commons. Dates move year to year — check before you plan around one.

Eating nearby

All 2 places to eat

Somewhere to run

Getting around

More train stations: Parque Fundidora 1.3 km, Puente del Papa 1.6 km, Pino Suárez 2.2 km, Serafin Pena 3.0 km, Fuerza Civil 3.9 km, Churubusco 3.9 km, Obispado / Torre Rise 4.7 km, Lindavista 4.8 km, Libertad 5.7 km

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Places © OpenStreetMap contributors, as of 9 October 2026. Description from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA). Events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage, population from Wikidata.