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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
Colourful houses in the old town, Mazatlan
MazatlanColourful houses in the old town

Photos: Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License; Mazatlan by Gzzz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Baku or Mazatlan?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Baku for

  • culture and sights
  • shopping
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Baku’s own page.

Choose Mazatlan for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Mazatlan’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Baku 40, Mazatlan 80: Mazatlan leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Baku 60, Mazatlan 62: Mazatlan leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Baku 62, Mazatlan 42: Baku leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Baku 42, Mazatlan 55: Mazatlan leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Mazatlan 66: Mazatlan leads by 36 points.
Day trips. Baku and Mazatlan are level on 45.
Good for families. Baku 45, Mazatlan 60: Mazatlan leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, Mazatlan 42: Baku leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, Mazatlan 30: Baku leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, Mazatlan 70: Mazatlan leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, Mazatlan 40: Baku leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, Mazatlan 35: Mazatlan leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Mazatlan.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Baku
48match

Wins on culture and sights and shopping with your weighting.

Mazatlan
Best match
52match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Baku in July

30 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
5 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Mazatlan in July

34 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
153 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BakuMazatlan

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Baku: 1991-2020 normals, Mashtaga (23.2 km from centre). Mazatlan: 1991-2020 normals, Colonia Juan Carras-Co Mazatlan, Sin. (2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuMazatlan
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign LanguageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC-7
Emergency number102 or 112911
Elevation-28 m139 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsGeneral Rafael Buelna International Airport (MZT)16 km from centre23 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBakuMazatlan
City population2,300,500441,975
People per km²1,075-
Museums within 10 km503
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months12 months

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.