Mexico City Clean Air Areas?

Question

I'm moving to Mexico DF and I would like to find an area with clean air since I am a part time athlete.

My priorities are to live somewhere in the city or near the city in a suburb where there is clean air and where the city is accesible.

Please let me know if there are such areas.

Also can you direct me to someone in Mexico who I can talk to about this issue?

thanks!

Answer 1

Air is not so bad most of the times in Mexico city any more, but still have big problems,  most of the neighborhood people are telling you are with in the urban area of Mexico city and with the exception of Santa fe, all have small car traffic...if you want to be near the big city  and don´t mind to commute 40 miles every day i´ll suggest you to try Metepec near Toluca, or Cuernavaca (50 miles).

In the city try to live near Chapultepec park or in the south near Bosque de Tlalpan park, Viveros  park in Coyoacan could be also an option.

Answer 2

Visit poquitomexico.blogspot.com, you'll find some cool information about the city

Answer 3

Try Huixquilucan, Santa Fe, or Bosques de las Lomas, this last one is the one closer to downtown.

Answer 4

A good resource to check with is The Newcomers Club of Mexico City.  See the link below.

Answer 5

OK First of all the Mexico City area is surrounded by hills and these do not allow the air take the pollutants away in an easy manner, that is why is known Mexico City air is not as clean as other cities in the world, the following website will show you the level of pollutants in the air, the ranges go as follows: 0-50 GOOD, 50-100 REGULAR, 101-150 BAD, 151-200 VERY BAD, 200 ~ EXTREMELY BAD.

http://www.sma.df.gob.mx/simat/

The information shown on this map is based on a real-time measurement and as you can see non of the places mentioned before by anyone of the participants are not free of pollutants, best you can do is exercise in the afternoon or evenings, most of the people I know including myself prefer to workout or exercise in a GYM or a SPORTS CLUB because these are not exposed directly to suspended particles in the air and are very safe, in Mexico City you can run around only if you are in a park but is still not as safe as one would like. Write more if you wish more info and welcome aboard.