Tennis in Mexico statistics (2026): courts by state

How many tennis courts does Mexico have, and where are they? Nobody publishes an official census, and the figures that circulate in articles and decks rarely say where they come from. This page answers with a count you can check: the sites with tennis in our national directory, added up by state and by municipality, set against each state's population and against the other two racket sports. No number is typed by hand; all of them are computed by the same code that feeds the court pages, so they update when the directory changes.

Ten figures to take away

• 1,173 sites with tennis courts recorded in Mexico as of October 22, 2026.
• 2,270 tennis courts counted in total, about 1.9 per site.
• Tennis appears in 262 municipalities across 32 states.
• Ciudad de México tops both tables, states and municipalities, with 122 sites.
• Ciudad de México, Jalisco, and Estado de México add up to 28% of the country's sites; in padel, the top three states hold 23%.
• The five municipalities with the most tennis hold 23% of the total.
• In 129 municipalities (49% of those with tennis) there is a single recorded site.
• The national average is 9.3 sites with tennis per million residents; the highest rate belongs to Baja California Sur, at 53.9.
• There are 7.7 tennis sites for every pickleball site.
• 1,005 sites (86%) are traced on OpenStreetMap, the highest share of the three racket sports.

What we count as a "site with tennis"

A site is a place with at least one tennis court: a private club, a municipal sports centre, a public sports complex, a park, a hotel or a school that has one recorded. If a sports centre has six courts, it counts as one site and six courts. When the source does not say how many courts there are, the site adds one to sites and zero to courts, which is why the court total is a floor, not a ceiling.

Here tennis is the exception among racket sports: the open map does know it. Of the directory's 1,173 sites, 1,005 (86%) come from OpenStreetMap, against a minority for padel and pickleball. It makes sense: a tennis court is visible from the air, takes up a large rectangle and has sat for decades in parks, schools and sports centres that map volunteers have already traced.

What the map does not see well are the courts inside gated communities, condominiums and residential clubs, which in many Mexican cities are a huge part of the tennis actually played. Nor does it tell you whether a court is in good shape, has lights or is open to the public. Take these figures as the documented minimum.

Tennis by state

The ten states with the most sites with tennis as of October 22, 2026. The rate per million residents uses INEGI's 2020 Population and Housing Census and is only computed when the state has 10 sites or more (otherwise a dash is shown):

• 1. Ciudad de México: 122 sites where tennis is played, spread over 1 municipality, with 320 tennis courts · 13.2 sites per million residents
• 2. Jalisco: 109 sites where tennis is played, spread over 22 municipalities, with 164 tennis courts · 13.1 sites per million residents
• 3. Estado de México: 92 sites where tennis is played, spread over 29 municipalities, with 162 tennis courts · 5.4 sites per million residents
• 4. Quintana Roo: 85 sites where tennis is played, spread over 7 municipalities, with 126 tennis courts · 45.7 sites per million residents
• 5. Baja California: 62 sites where tennis is played, spread over 7 municipalities, with 132 tennis courts · 16.4 sites per million residents
• 6. Yucatán: 55 sites where tennis is played, spread over 7 municipalities, with 85 tennis courts · 23.7 sites per million residents
• 7. Chihuahua: 49 sites where tennis is played, spread over 9 municipalities, with 102 tennis courts · 13.1 sites per million residents
• 8. Baja California Sur: 43 sites where tennis is played, spread over 5 municipalities, with 62 tennis courts · 53.9 sites per million residents
• 9. Veracruz: 42 sites where tennis is played, spread over 16 municipalities, with 87 tennis courts · 5.2 sites per million residents
• 10. Nuevo León: 40 sites where tennis is played, spread over 14 municipalities, with 130 tennis courts · 6.9 sites per million residents

Not a single state is without tennis: all 32 have at least one recorded site.

The per-resident table tells a different story from the totals. The most populous states lead in absolute numbers, but the highest rates tend to appear in tourist states with smaller populations, where hotels and residential developments add courts that do not depend on the size of the city.

Tennis by municipality

The ten municipalities with the most recorded sites with tennis:

• 1. Ciudad de México, Ciudad de México: 122 sites and 320 tennis courts
• 2. Cancún, Quintana Roo: 43 sites and 60 tennis courts
• 3. Zapopan, Jalisco: 37 sites and 69 tennis courts
• 4. Mérida, Yucatán: 33 sites and 63 tennis courts
• 5. Valle de Bravo, Estado de México: 33 sites and 45 tennis courts
• 6. Chihuahua, Chihuahua: 28 sites and 67 tennis courts
• 7. Los Cabos, Baja California Sur: 27 sites and 48 tennis courts
• 8. Morelia, Michoacán: 19 sites and 53 tennis courts
• 9. Querétaro, Querétaro: 18 sites and 49 tennis courts
• 10. Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas: 18 sites and 24 tennis courts

The list is not only big metropolises. Next to the capitals there are beach destinations and mid-sized cities with a club tradition, and in metropolitan areas tennis is split across several neighbouring municipalities, so a big city's figure usually falls short if you only look at its central municipality.

Tennis, padel and pickleball: which has more courts

Tennis is still the racket sport with the most infrastructure in the country: 1,173 sites against 568 for padel and 153 for pickleball. There are 2.1 tennis sites for each padel one, and tennis holds 62% of the sites of the three racket sports together.

Only in 3 states does padel already have more recorded sites than tennis: Guanajuato, Sinaloa, and San Luis Potosí. Everywhere else, the classic racket sport is still ahead.

The comparison does not measure who plays more, but where the infrastructure is. A tennis court takes up more than twice the area of a padel court and costs more to maintain, so recent growth went into new padel clubs, while tennis lives mostly on courts that already existed. Several clubs also turn one tennis court into two or three padel courts, or paint pickleball lines on it.

What we measured on foot

The national directory is complemented by a field check: the 15 clubs in Cancún and the Riviera Maya we visited or verified one by one have 11 tennis courts between them. It is a local sample, not a national one, but it helps compare what the map says with what is really on court.

Prices: no national figure yet

We only publish a city's price when we have rates from at least 3 clubs for that sport, and in tennis no city reaches that minimum yet. Rather than invent an average, the guide to what a tennis court costs to rent explains how it is charged: per court hour at clubs, per monthly membership at sports clubs, and very cheaply or free at many municipal sports centres.

How to cite these statistics

These figures are free to use in news stories, theses, market reports or presentations. We only ask three things: name MeetAndPlay as the source, give the data cut-off date and link this page, which always shows the latest version. We suggest this reference:

MeetAndPlay, "Tennis in Mexico statistics (2026)", data as of October 22, 2026. https://meetandplay.mx/en/guias/estadisticas-del-tenis-en-mexico

For the per-resident comparison between sports, also link meetandplay.mx/datos/canchas-por-habitante. For the OpenStreetMap figure, meetandplay.mx/reporte-padel-mexico. The downloadable CSV tables are at meetandplay.mx/datos, and the detail of sources and criteria at meetandplay.mx/metodologia. If you run a club or sports centre with tennis courts that is not listed, let us know and we will add it to the next cut.