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Mexico City doesn't really do ghost walks or night bus tours. Not good ones, anyway. What it does do, three nights a week, is lucha libre. Masked wrestlers, an arena in Doctores, and a crowd that's half the show.
Five of the six tours ranked here are built the same way. Meet in Roma Norte or Juarez, eat tacos, drink a beer or a mezcal or a pulque, walk or ride to Arena Mexico with a guide who has your ticket, and watch the card. The sixth is a taco and mezcal crawl with no wrestling at all.
Could you just buy a ticket and go? Yes. CMLL sells them through Ticketmaster and the box office. The tour buys you dinner, a guide who knows the arena, and a group to walk out with at the end. For a first visit, I think that's worth it.
One rule before you book: check the day. The Sunday card starts at 5 p.m., so a Sunday booking isn't really a night out.
At a glance
Best overall
El Taco Club lucha libre with tacos and mezcal, 7.1, from $96 (€86)
Best food night
Sabores Mexico taco and mezcal crawl, from $135 (€121)
Cheapest good one
Calavera Tours, wrestling school and Arena Mexico, from $65 (€58)
With kids
Best Tour CDMX, no alcohol, 5 p.m. start
Skip
The Turibus night bus (rated 3.3) and the Garibaldi night tour (3.2)
When it gets dark
About 6:35 p.m. in October, 7:42 p.m. in July
On this page
The 6 best night tours in Mexico City, ranked
Every tour we scored in Mexico City that cleared our bar (rated 4.4 or more from 50+ reviews), in Night Score order. Night Score = 30% rating, 10% review count, 20% price per hour, 40% how much the night is the point. How we score
2,141 reviews at 4.9. Nothing else on the page comes close on proof, and that's why El Taco Club ranks first even at $96 (€86), the priciest lucha tour here. You get tacos and a beer or mezcal at a cantina or taqueria, a soft drink, the event ticket and a souvenir, then a group trip to Arena Mexico, or Arena Coliseo on Saturdays when it meets at Garibaldi Square. Other days it starts in Roma Norte. Up to 20 people. Tips and arena extras are on you. The meeting point arrives the night before, which can feel late if you like to plan.
How the score breaks down, and the fine print
Rated by travelersData · 30%8.6
Review countData · 10%8.7
Price per hourData · 20%6.2
After darkEditors · 40%6.0
What it is: Tacos and a beer or mezcal at a cantina or taqueria, then a guided group visit to a lucha libre show at Arena Mexico or Arena Coliseo, run by El Taco Club.
Good to know: Tacos, a beer or mezcal, a soft drink, the event ticket and a souvenir are included; tips and arena extras are not. Up to 20 per group; the meeting point is sent the night before.
After dark: Mexico City's big lucha libre cards are night events, and the taco and mezcal warm-up turns it into a night out.
Rating, review count and from-price as shown on Viator on October 26, 2026. The price changes with the date.
The only non-wrestling tour that cleared our bar. Sabores Mexico Food Tours starts at La Tonina taqueria, Serapio Rendon 27 in San Rafael, then moves across neighborhoods by minivan for tacos, beer and mezcal tastings, ending at the Diana Cazadora fountain on Reforma. It's 3.5 hours, up to 10 people, with dinner, drinks, gratuities and hotel pickup included. At $135 (€121) it's expensive, which keeps it second despite a 4.9 rating on 300 reviews. Alcohol is 18 and up. Not for vegetarians.
How the score breaks down, and the fine print
Rated by travelersData · 30%6.7
Review countData · 10%5.8
Price per hourData · 20%5.4
After darkEditors · 40%6.0
What it is: A small-group evening taco crawl with beer and mezcal tastings across several neighborhoods by minivan, run by Sabores Mexico Food Tours.
Good to know: Dinner, drinks, beer and mezcal tastings, guide, minivan, gratuities and hotel pickup are included. Up to 10 per group; alcohol 18+; ends at the Diana Cazadora fountain on Reforma; not suited to vegetarians.
After dark: Sold as a night out: the taquerias and mezcal bars it visits are at their liveliest after dark.
Rating, review count and from-price as shown on Viator on October 26, 2026. The price changes with the date.
Authentic Lucha Libre Tour: Wrestling School, Tacos and Mezcal
Night show
5.9/10Night Score
From $65 (€58)
3 to 4 hours
Starts: 6:00 p.m.
Small group
4.8 (177 reviews)
Best value of the lucha nights: $65 (€58) for three to four hours with dinner, drinks, a mezcal shot, a mask and admission. Calavera Tours adds a look at a wrestling school before the show, which no other tour here does. The Tuesday departure leaves at 6 p.m., just before dusk, and ends with the Arena Mexico card. The start point varies by day (Sacred Territory or Templo Mezcaleria), and so does the finish (Vips Cuauhtemoc or Cafe de Tacuba). Up to 20. A 4.8 on 177 reviews puts it third.
How the score breaks down, and the fine print
Rated by travelersData · 30%4.8
Review countData · 10%5.0
Price per hourData · 20%7.7
After darkEditors · 40%6.0
What it is: A mezcal and taco stop and a look at a wrestling school, then a lucha libre show at Arena Mexico, run by Calavera Tours.
Good to know: Mask, drinks, a mezcal shot, admission and dinner are included. Up to 20 per group; the end point depends on where it starts (Vips Cuauhtemoc or Cafe de Tacuba).
After dark: It starts at dusk and ends with the Tuesday or Friday night card at Arena Mexico.
Rating, review count and from-price as shown on Viator on October 26, 2026. The price changes with the date.
Lucha Libre Tacos Tequila and Mezcal Tour in Mexico City
Night show
5.8/10Night Score
From $69 (€62)
3 to 4 hours
Starts: Evening before the lucha libre
Large group
4.7 (341 reviews)
The shortest walk to the arena. Mex I Can starts at Taqueria Mendoza in Doctores, a few blocks from Arena Mexico, with dinner and drinks, and the arena ticket and gratuities are included at $69 (€62). Alcohol is served only to guests 21 and up. The catch is size. The page calls it private, but a reviewer counted about 90 people on a Friday night, so treat it as a big group, not a small one. Rated 4.7 on 341 reviews, fourth.
How the score breaks down, and the fine print
Rated by travelersData · 30%4.3
Review countData · 10%5.9
Price per hourData · 20%7.5
After darkEditors · 40%6.0
What it is: Tacos and drinks at a Doctores taqueria, then a lucha libre show at Arena Mexico, run by Mex I Can.
Good to know: Dinner, drinks (alcohol only for 21+), guide, arena ticket and gratuities are included. The page calls it private, but a reviewer counted about 90 people on a Friday night, so treat it as a large group.
After dark: Built around the night wrestling at Arena Mexico, a few blocks from the taqueria.
Rating, review count and from-price as shown on Viator on October 26, 2026. The price changes with the date.
The family one. Best Tour CDMX serves no alcohol at all, and it starts early, 5 p.m. outside Sanborns at Hamburgo 63 in Colonia Juarez, by the Hamburgo Metrobus stop. Two hours of all-you-can-eat tacos and a mask stop, then Arena Mexico. That's 4.5 hours for $65 (€58), with soft drinks, the ticket and a souvenir mask included, so it scores high on value. Closer seats cost extra. Up to 15. The 4.7 rating on 115 reviews keeps it fifth. Kids get a mask to keep.
How the score breaks down, and the fine print
Rated by travelersData · 30%3.4
Review countData · 10%4.3
Price per hourData · 20%8.8
After darkEditors · 40%6.0
What it is: A two-hour taco walk through Colonia Juarez with a mask stop, then a lucha libre show at Arena Mexico, run by Best Tour CDMX.
Good to know: All-you-can-eat tacos, soft drinks, the arena ticket and a souvenir mask are included; no alcohol, which makes it the family option. Up to 15 per group; closer seats are a paid upgrade.
After dark: The walk leads into the evening wrestling at Arena Mexico, which is the event the night is built around.
Rating, review count and from-price as shown on Viator on October 26, 2026. The price changes with the date.
Adults only, 18 and up. Estacion Mexico meets at the Metrobus Cuauhtemoc exit in Roma Norte, takes you to a pulqueria for a pulque, then on to Arena Mexico (Arena Coliseo on Saturdays). Guide, mask, ticket and gratuities are in the $65 (€58). It has 687 reviews, the second most here, but a 4.5 rating, the lowest, so it ranks last. The page says both 15 and 50 maximum, which tells you to expect a crowd. No bottled water or pro cameras in the arena. Pick it if pulque interests you more than mezcal.
How the score breaks down, and the fine print
Rated by travelersData · 30%1.8
Review countData · 10%7.0
Price per hourData · 20%7.7
After darkEditors · 40%6.0
What it is: A guided visit to a pulqueria for a pulque, then a lucha libre show at Arena Mexico (Arena Coliseo on Saturdays), run by Estacion Mexico.
Good to know: Pulqueria visit, a pulque, guide, a wrestler's mask, show ticket and gratuities are included. Adults 18+ only; the page says both 15 and 50 maximum; no bottled water or pro cameras in the arena.
After dark: It pairs a pulqueria visit with the city's night wrestling cards, the classic chilango night out.
Rating, review count and from-price as shown on Viator on October 26, 2026. The price changes with the date.
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Lucha libre: which night to go
CMLL, the promotion that runs Arena Mexico, lists three regular weekly shows there: Tuesday at 7:30 p.m., Friday at 8:30 p.m. and Sunday at 5 p.m. Arena Coliseo, its other city venue, has a Saturday show at 7:30 p.m. on the current listings.
Friday starts latest. Tuesday is the earlier night and the one Calavera's listed departure is built around. Sunday is a family afternoon, billed as Domingo Familiar, and you'll walk out before it's properly dark for much of the year.
The arena is at Dr. Lavista 189 in Colonia Doctores. CMLL warns that the program is subject to last-minute changes. This week's Tuesday card has a Day of the Dead theme.
A tour isn't required. If you buy your own ticket, go with a group, eat beforehand in Roma Norte, and take an app car both ways. That's the tour without the guide.
Night food and cantinas
The best night food here is on the street or at a taqueria counter, not on a tour. Roma Norte, Juarez and San Rafael are where the tours on this list start, and that's no accident.
The one food tour that made it, Sabores Mexico, is good and pricey. If $135 (€121) feels steep, do your own crawl: start at a taqueria, move to a cantina, finish with mezcal. A proper cantina beats a hotel bar every time, and El Taco Club's warm-up can be at one.
Vegetarians should skip the organized versions. The Sabores page says it isn't suited to them, and every lucha tour is built around tacos.
How to pick
First lucha night: El Taco Club. It has more than three times the reviews of any other tour here.
On a budget: Calavera at $65 (€58), with a wrestling school thrown in.
With kids: Best Tour CDMX. No alcohol, a 5 p.m. start, and none of the age rules that apply elsewhere. Estacion Mexico is 18 and up; Mex I Can serves alcohol only to those 21 and up.
Not into wrestling? The Sabores taco and mezcal night, and nothing else on Viator. There's no ghost tour, night bus or night walk in Mexico City that cleared our bar. The city's legends shows (the Turibus Terror bus, the La Llorona show at Cuemanco in Xochimilco in October and November) are sold directly, not through the sites we rank. One private legends walk had a 5.0 but only 36 reviews.
Getting back late: Metro hours and taxis
The Metro closes at midnight. It opens at 5 a.m. on weekdays, 6 a.m. on Saturdays and 7 a.m. on Sundays and holidays, according to the operator's published schedule as reported in the Mexican press. Metrobus runs to midnight too. A Friday card that starts at 8:30 p.m. leaves you little slack, and honestly, after a night of mezcal, the Metro isn't where I'd want to be anyway.
Take an app ride or a taxi from a sitio, the regulated taxi stands. The U.S. State Department rates Mexico City at "Exercise Increased Caution" for crime, asks for extra care at night outside the busy tourist areas, and requires its own staff to use dispatched cars, app rides or regulated stands rather than hailing taxis on the street. That's a sensible rule for anyone.
The lucha tours get you to the arena in Doctores as a group, with a guide. That alone is a good reason to book one on your first visit. Our night tour safety guide has more.
Day of the Dead dates
Day of the Dead falls on November 1 and 2. In 2026, the big parade, the Gran Desfile de Dia de Muertos, is on Saturday, October 31, from 2 p.m., running along Reforma from the Diana Cazadora to the Zocalo. The Mega Procesion de Catrinas was on Sunday, October 25.
Expect closures. In early November 2025, road closures and parades delayed tours; one lucha host said so in a reply to a reviewer. Leave extra time on the 31st and on November 1 and 2, and don't plan a tight dinner before a show.
Arena Mexico gets in on it: the Tuesday card on October 27 is Day of the Dead themed.
Seasons: dark times, rain and cold nights
It gets dark late in summer, about 7:42 p.m. in July, and early in winter, about 6:21 p.m. in November. Either way, a Tuesday or Friday card is after dark.
Summer is the rainy season. The weather archive gives July about 28 days with some rain and December about 2. On a wet evening, leave for the show early.
Winter nights are cold for a city this far south: about 45°F (7°C) in January, because of the altitude. Bring a jacket for the walk back. In June the low is about 56°F (13.5°C).
What to skip
The Turibus night bus, rated 3.3. The Garibaldi night tour, rated 3.2. A separate wrestling tour rated 4.0. None of them is worth a night when the lucha tours above rate 4.5 to 4.9.
Also skip anything sold as a night tour that isn't. One street food tour in the night category finishes by 8 p.m., and the Xochimilco party boat on the list leaves in the afternoon.
When it gets dark in Mexico City
Times are for the 15th of each month in 2027, local time with daylight saving, computed with NOAA’s solar equations for Mexico City. Dark is the end of civil twilight, when streetlights and floodlights take over; fully dark is the end of nautical twilight. Night lows are 2016–2025 averages from the Open-Meteo historical archive. Every city side by side
Month
Sunset
Dark
Fully dark
Night low
January
6:17 p.m.
6:41 p.m.
7:08 p.m.
45°F (7°C)
February
6:36 p.m.
6:58 p.m.
7:24 p.m.
47°F (8°C)
March
6:46 p.m.
7:08 p.m.
7:33 p.m.
51°F (10°C)
April
6:54 p.m.
7:16 p.m.
7:42 p.m.
54°F (12°C)
May
7:03 p.m.
7:27 p.m.
7:55 p.m.
56°F (13°C)
June
7:15 p.m.
7:39 p.m.
8:08 p.m.
56°F (14°C)
July
7:18 p.m.
7:42 p.m.
8:10 p.m.
55°F (13°C)
August
7:05 p.m.
7:28 p.m.
7:55 p.m.
55°F (13°C)
September
6:39 p.m.
7:01 p.m.
7:27 p.m.
55°F (13°C)
October
6:13 p.m.
6:35 p.m.
7:01 p.m.
52°F (11°C)
November
5:58 p.m.
6:21 p.m.
6:47 p.m.
49°F (9°C)
December
6:00 p.m.
6:24 p.m.
6:52 p.m.
46°F (8°C)
Frequently asked questions
What nights is lucha libre at Arena Mexico?
CMLL lists regular shows on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m., Friday at 8:30 p.m. and Sunday at 5 p.m. Arena Coliseo has a Saturday show at 7:30 p.m. Programs can change at short notice.
Is a lucha libre tour worth it in Mexico City?
For a first visit, yes. From about $65 (€58) you get dinner, drinks, the ticket and a guide, and you get to the arena in Doctores with a group. If you've been before, buy your own ticket and take an app car.
What time does the Mexico City Metro close?
Midnight, every day. It opens at 5 a.m. on weekdays, 6 a.m. on Saturdays and 7 a.m. on Sundays and holidays. After a late show, take an app ride or a sitio taxi.
Can kids go to lucha libre in Mexico City?
Yes. Best Tour CDMX serves no alcohol and starts at 5 p.m., and the Sunday afternoon card at Arena Mexico is billed as a family show. Estacion Mexico's tour is for adults 18 and up.
When is the Day of the Dead parade in Mexico City in 2026?
Saturday, October 31, 2026, from 2 p.m., along Reforma from the Diana Cazadora to the Zocalo. Day of the Dead itself is November 1 and 2. Expect road closures and slow traffic on all three days.
Are there ghost tours in Mexico City?
Not good ones on the big booking sites. We found no Mexico City ghost tour with 50 or more reviews. The city's legends shows, like the Turibus Terror bus and the La Llorona show in Xochimilco, are sold directly.
Further reading
Official sources
CMLL: Arena Mexico– Address, regular Tuesday 7:30 p.m., Friday 8:30 p.m. and Sunday 5 p.m. shows; checked October 26, 2026
CMLL: cartelera– Saturday 7:30 p.m. Arena Coliseo show, Day of the Dead Tuesday card, programs subject to change; checked October 26, 2026
