Mexico City Airport to Polanco Transfer
Across the north of the city from MEX to Polanco, at a fixed price for the whole vehicle.
- Distance
- 10.7 miles
- Drive time
- About 20 min
- Highway
- Circuito Interior
- From, one way
- $170
The drive
MEX to Polanco on the Circuito Interior
Polanco is 10.7 miles from Terminal 1 and 12 from Terminal 2, about 20 min with the roads clear. It is one of the few transfers in the city where Terminal 1 is the nearer of the two.
The route is almost entirely the Circuito Interior, the ring road around the inner city. From the airport it runs west along Río Consulado, past the northern edge of the center, and around to Melchor Ocampo, where it drops into Polanco's streets.
It is the natural line and the one the driver takes when it is moving. When it is not, the price stays exactly as quoted.
This transfer at a glance
- Distance
- 10.7 mi from T1, 12 from T2
- Free-flow time
- about 20 min
- Road
- The Circuito Interior, most of the way
- Fixed price
- Per vehicle, set when you book.
Prices
What a Polanco transfer costs
The table is priced from Terminal 2, the farther of the two for Polanco, so a Terminal 1 arrival is never quoted above it. One price covers the whole vehicle.
| Vehicle | Seats | One way | Round trip |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business Sedan | Up to 2 | $170 | $340 |
| Premium SUV | Up to 5 | $185 | $370 |
| Executive SUV | Up to 5 | $220 | $440 |
| Sprinter Executive | Up to 12 | $480 | $960 |
| Sprinter Coach | Up to 14 | $480 | $960 |
| Executive Coach Bus | Up to 40 | $920 | $1,840 |
| Motor Coach | Up to 55 | $1,030 | $2,060 |
Polanco
Polanco sits north of Chapultepec Park, and it is not one neighborhood so much as several. Addresses carry a section number — Polanco I Sección through V Sección, plus Nuevo Polanco to the west — and the sections are far enough apart that the number matters.
Send the full address with its section and the nearest cross street. Avenida Presidente Masaryk, the district's main shopping street, runs through the middle; many of the others in Polanco carry the names of writers and philosophers and several run one way, so the approach to a hotel door is not always the obvious one; the cross street lets the driver plan it.
Next door
The one hotel near here in our completed bookings is the Grand Fiesta Americana Chapultepec — and it is in Anzures, not Polanco, on Calzada General Mariano Escobedo at the edge of the two. It is a common mix-up: hotels along that edge are often described as being in Polanco.
It makes no difference to the transfer as long as we have the street address. It is worth knowing if you are comparing distances, because Anzures is a little nearer the center.
Terminals
MEX has two terminals, and for Polanco they differ by 1.3 miles. On the airport operator's flight board, Aeroméxico and Delta used Terminal 2 and the other airlines Terminal 1 — the MEX page has the full list and where you come out in each.
We read the terminal from your flight number. The driver waits outside your arrivals exit with a sign showing your name.
Next door
Polanco's southern edge is Chapultepec Park, the city's great park, and along Paseo de la Reforma at the park's edge is the National Museum of Anthropology. For a visitor staying in Polanco, much of the city's best-known sightseeing is a short ride away, and some of it is a walk.
The same driver who brings you in from the airport can be booked by the hour for a day in the city — the museum, the Centro Histórico, dinner in Roma — with a four-hour minimum and the clock running from pickup to drop-off.
The other airport
If your flight lands at AIFA rather than MEX, Polanco is 27.9 miles away instead of 12, on the México–Pachuca toll highway and Insurgentes Norte, and the transfer is priced on that distance. The AIFA page has the full grid.
Traffic
The free-flow time assumes an empty ring road, and the Circuito Interior is one of the city's busiest. TomTom's 2025 Traffic Index gives Mexico City an average rush-hour speed of 13.5 km/h; on this transfer that can turn twenty minutes into well over an hour.
For an arrival, nothing is lost — the price is fixed and the driver simply takes the time the road takes. For a departure, we set the pickup with that range in mind.
Going home
The airport asks for 2 hours before a domestic flight and 3 hours before an international one. Add the drive, with the traffic, and the pickup time follows. Tell us the flight and the terminal and we will suggest it.
Round trip
A round trip is twice the one-way price, with the return pickup set from your departure flight rather than a time we guess. Booking both legs together means the departure day is already arranged — useful in a city where finding a car at short notice at the wrong hour takes longer than the drive itself.
Business
On a business trip the airport run is often only the first job. A driver held by the hour for a day of meetings — Polanco, Reforma, Santa Fe — is priced on the hourly rate with a four-hour minimum, and saves hailing a car between every stop.
For a team arriving together, a Sprinter keeps everyone and the luggage in one vehicle from the same arrivals exit.
Nearby
The airports, the other transfers and the city hub.
Booking
The flight number, the full address with its Polanco section, and how many people and bags.
The Polanco price covers tolls. Tipping is up to you, a child seat costs nothing if asked for at booking, and canceling is free more than a day before the pickup at MEX.
The Mexico City hub has every zone. On to the business district: MEX to Santa Fe.
Frequently Asked Questions
10.7 miles from Terminal 1 and 12 from Terminal 2, about 20 min with no traffic.
From $185 one way in a Premium SUV for up to five, or from $170 in a Business Sedan for two. Round trip is twice the one-way price.
Twenty minutes with empty roads. TomTom puts the city's average rush-hour speed at 13.5 km/h, so at peak times it can be well over an hour. The price does not change.
A little: Terminal 1 is about a mile nearer Polanco. We read it from your flight number.
Check the street address. Hotels on the eastern edge, along Mariano Escobedo, are often in Anzures.
Just outside the arrivals exit of your terminal, holding a sign with your name.
No. One price covers the vehicle and whoever fits in it.