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Colourful houses in the old town, Mazatlan
MazatlanColourful houses in the old town
Brooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan, New York
New YorkBrooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan

Photos: Mazatlan by Gzzz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; New York by Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Mazatlan or New York?

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

  • prices
  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose New York for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on New York’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, New York 50: Mazatlan leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Mazatlan 62, New York 92: New York leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Mazatlan 42, New York 89: New York leads by 47 points.
Nightlife. Mazatlan 55, New York 97: New York leads by 42 points.
Nature & outdoors. Mazatlan 66, New York 55: Mazatlan leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Mazatlan 45, New York 68: New York leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Mazatlan 60, New York 70: New York leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Mazatlan 42, New York 82: New York leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Mazatlan 30, New York 97: New York leads by 67 points.
Affordability. Mazatlan 70, New York 12: Mazatlan leads by 58 points.
Live music & performing arts. Mazatlan 40, New York 99: New York leads by 59 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Mazatlan 35, New York 42: New York leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Mazatlan and New York.

Your match

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

Mazatlan
52match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

New York
Best match
71match

Wins on shopping and live music and the arts 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

New York in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
107 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
22 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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MazatlanNew York

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). New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMazatlanNew York
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya-
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation139 m25 m
Main airportGeneral Rafael Buelna International Airport (MZT)16 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMazatlanNew York
City population441,9758,804,190
People per km²-7,256
Museums within 10 km3157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months3 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.