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The white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town, Krabi
KrabiThe white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town
Colourful houses in the old town, Mazatlan
MazatlanColourful houses in the old town

Photos: Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Mazatlan by Gzzz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Krabi 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 Krabi for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

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

Choose Mazatlan for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • 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. Krabi 87, Mazatlan 80: Krabi leads by 7 points.
Food & drink. Krabi 50, Mazatlan 62: Mazatlan leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Krabi 20, Mazatlan 42: Mazatlan leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Krabi 33, Mazatlan 55: Mazatlan leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krabi 85, Mazatlan 66: Krabi leads by 19 points.
Day trips. Krabi 40, Mazatlan 45: Mazatlan leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Krabi 55, Mazatlan 60: Mazatlan leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Krabi 30, Mazatlan 42: Mazatlan leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Krabi 20, Mazatlan 30: Mazatlan leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Krabi 78, Mazatlan 70: Krabi leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krabi 12, Mazatlan 40: Mazatlan leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krabi 72, Mazatlan 35: Krabi leads by 37 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krabi and Mazatlan.

Your match

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

Krabi
49match

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

Mazatlan
Best match
52match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Krabi in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
212 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 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

Krabi's temperatures are measured 67 km from the centre, at Phuket Airport.

Krabi 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. Krabi: 1991-2020 normals, Phuket Airport (66.6 km from centre). Mazatlan: 1991-2020 normals, Colonia Juan Carras-Co Mazatlan, Sin. (2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKrabiMazatlan
Official languageThaiSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyBaht (THB)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-7
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199911
Elevation16 m139 m
Main airportKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsGeneral Rafael Buelna International Airport (MZT)16 km from centre23 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-9 days

By the numbers

MeasureKrabiMazatlan
City population30,499441,975
Museums within 10 km03
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.