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The Hassan II Mosque and its minaret, Casablanca
CasablancaThe Hassan II Mosque and its minaret
The main beach with the green hills behind, Sayulita
SayulitaThe main beach with the green hills behind

Photos: Casablanca by Samir Bakkah, Pexels License; Sayulita by Luisalvaz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Casablanca or Sayulita?

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 Casablanca for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • prices

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

Choose Sayulita for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Sayulita’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. Casablanca 50, Sayulita 80: Sayulita leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Casablanca 60, Sayulita 42: Casablanca leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Casablanca 52, Sayulita 7: Casablanca leads by 45 points.
Nightlife. Casablanca 44, Sayulita 33: Casablanca leads by 11 points.
Nature & outdoors. Casablanca 33, Sayulita 72: Sayulita leads by 39 points.
Day trips. Casablanca 55, Sayulita 42: Casablanca leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Casablanca 38, Sayulita 42: Sayulita leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Casablanca 42, Sayulita 48: Sayulita leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Casablanca 50, Sayulita 33: Casablanca leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Casablanca 68, Sayulita 45: Casablanca leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Casablanca 38, Sayulita 12: Casablanca leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Casablanca 52, Sayulita 58: Sayulita leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Casablanca and Sayulita.

Your match

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

Casablanca
Best match
49match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Sayulita
43match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Casablanca in July

26 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
22 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Sayulita in July

29 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
342 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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CasablancaSayulita

Where the figures come from

Sayulita has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Casablanca: 1991-2020 normals, Casablanca (5.6 km from centre). Sayulita: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureCasablancaSayulita
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCE50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC-6
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15911
Elevation115 m2 m
Main airportMohammed V International Airport (CMN)26 km from centre112 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)29 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureCasablancaSayulita
City population3,215,9353,390
People per km²8,375-
Museums within 10 km30
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 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). 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.