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Colourful houses in the old town, Mazatlan
MazatlanColourful houses in the old town
Place d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal
MontrealPlace d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica

Photos: Mazatlan by Gzzz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Montreal by Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Mazatlan or Montreal?

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 Mazatlan for

  • beaches
  • prices

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

Choose Montreal for

  • live music and the arts
  • getting around
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Montreal’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. Mazatlan 80, Montreal 25: Mazatlan leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Mazatlan 62, Montreal 78: Montreal leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Mazatlan 42, Montreal 60: Montreal leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Mazatlan 55, Montreal 75: Montreal leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Mazatlan and Montreal are level on 66.
Day trips. Mazatlan 45, Montreal 55: Montreal leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Mazatlan 60, Montreal 68: Montreal leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Mazatlan 42, Montreal 72: Montreal leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Mazatlan 30, Montreal 60: Montreal leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Mazatlan 70, Montreal 45: Mazatlan leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Mazatlan 40, Montreal 76: Montreal leads by 36 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Mazatlan 35, Montreal 57: Montreal leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Mazatlan and Montreal.

Your match

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

Mazatlan
52match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Montreal
Best match
61match

Wins on live music and the arts and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Montreal in July

27 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
98 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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MazatlanMontreal

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Mazatlan: 1991-2020 normals, Colonia Juan Carras-Co Mazatlan, Sin. (2 km from centre). Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMazatlanMontreal
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaFrench, English
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation139 m31 m
Main airportGeneral Rafael Buelna International Airport (MZT)16 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre166 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureMazatlanMontreal
City population441,9751,895,211
People per km²-3,806
Museums within 10 km337
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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.