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Pulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon, Bath
BathPulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon
Colourful houses in the old town, Mazatlan
MazatlanColourful houses in the old town

Photos: Bath by Lucas Carlini, Pexels License; Mazatlan by Gzzz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bath 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 Bath for

  • wellness
  • day trips
  • getting around

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

Choose Mazatlan for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nightlife

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. Bath 10, Mazatlan 80: Mazatlan leads by 70 points.
Food & drink. Bath 44, Mazatlan 62: Mazatlan leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Bath 68, Mazatlan 42: Bath leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Bath 30, Mazatlan 55: Mazatlan leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bath 58, Mazatlan 66: Mazatlan leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Bath 80, Mazatlan 45: Bath leads by 35 points.
Good for families. Bath 50, Mazatlan 60: Mazatlan leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Bath 72, Mazatlan 42: Bath leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Bath 54, Mazatlan 30: Bath leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Bath 27, Mazatlan 70: Mazatlan leads by 43 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bath 44, Mazatlan 40: Bath leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bath 78, Mazatlan 35: Bath leads by 43 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bath and Mazatlan.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Bath
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Wins on wellness and day trips with your weighting.

Mazatlan
52match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Bath in July

21 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
62 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
16 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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Where the figures come from

Bath's temperatures are measured 29 km from the centre, at Lyneham.

Bath has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Mazatlan: 1991-2020 normals, Colonia Juan Carras-Co Mazatlan, Sin. (2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBathMazatlan
Official languageEnglishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-7
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation132 m139 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre117 non-stop destinationsGeneral Rafael Buelna International Airport (MZT)16 km from centre23 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathMazatlan
City population94,092441,975
People per km²3,245-
Museums within 10 km173
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

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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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. 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.