Tecate
Tecate is a city of 73,000 people (2015) in Baja California on the border with California, about an hour east of Tijuana. Unlike most US/Mexico border crossings, there is no town on the US side. Wikivoyage
Population 81,059 (Wikidata)
Before you go
Emergency numbers in Mexico
- January: 10 h 15 of daylight
- February: 11 h 02 of daylight
- March: 11 h 57 of daylight
- April: 12 h 59 of daylight
- May: 13 h 50 of daylight
- June: 14 h 17 of daylight
- July: 14 h 05 of daylight
- August: 13 h 22 of daylight
- September: 12 h 23 of daylight
- October: 11 h 24 of daylight
- November: 10 h 30 of daylight
- December: 10 h 01 of daylight
Getting there
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Best-documented sights
All of them in the guide- Monument to the Children Monument · 600 m
- Steel Bull Monument · 790 m
- General Lázaro Cárdenas del Río Memorial · 910 m
- ICBC Museum · 920 m
- CEART Museum · 950 m
- Benito Juarez Memorial · 1000 m
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.
Markets
Markets mapped on OpenStreetMap, with their hours where someone has added them. Check locally before you go.
Somewhere to run
Places © OpenStreetMap contributors, as of 17 October 2026. Description from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA). Events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage, population from Wikidata.