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Colourful houses in the old town, Mazatlan
MazatlanColourful houses in the old town
Lower Broadway and its honky-tonks, Nashville
NashvilleLower Broadway and its honky-tonks

Photos: Mazatlan by Gzzz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Nashville by Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Mazatlan or Nashville?

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
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Nashville for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Nashville’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, Nashville 14: Mazatlan leads by 66 points.
Food & drink. Mazatlan and Nashville are level on 62.
Culture & sights. Mazatlan 42, Nashville 50: Nashville leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Mazatlan 55, Nashville 70: Nashville leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Mazatlan 66, Nashville 46: Mazatlan leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Mazatlan 45, Nashville 52: Nashville leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Mazatlan 60, Nashville 55: Mazatlan leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Mazatlan 42, Nashville 30: Mazatlan leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Mazatlan 30, Nashville 42: Nashville leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Mazatlan 70, Nashville 30: Mazatlan leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Mazatlan 40, Nashville 82: Nashville leads by 42 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Mazatlan 35, Nashville 20: Mazatlan leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Mazatlan and Nashville.

Your match

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

Mazatlan
Best match
52match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Nashville
46match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife 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

Nashville in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
104 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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MazatlanNashville

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). Nashville: 1991-2020 normals, Nashville Airport (9.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMazatlanNashville
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya-
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7UTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation139 m182 m
Main airportGeneral Rafael Buelna International Airport (MZT)16 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsNashville International Airport (BNA)10 km from centre122 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMazatlanNashville
City population441,975689,447
People per km²-506
Museums within 10 km312
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.