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Colourful houses in the old town, Mazatlan
MazatlanColourful houses in the old town
The Eiffel Tower from the Trocadéro, Paris
ParisThe Eiffel Tower from the Trocadéro

Photos: Mazatlan by Gzzz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Paris by Efrem Efre, Pexels License.

Mazatlan or Paris?

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 Paris for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Paris’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, Paris 9: Mazatlan leads by 71 points.
Food & drink. Mazatlan 62, Paris 96: Paris leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. Mazatlan 42, Paris 97: Paris leads by 55 points.
Nightlife. Mazatlan 55, Paris 80: Paris leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Mazatlan 66, Paris 52: Mazatlan leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Mazatlan 45, Paris 92: Paris leads by 47 points.
Good for families. Mazatlan 60, Paris 79: Paris leads by 19 points.
Getting around. Mazatlan 42, Paris 88: Paris leads by 46 points.
Shopping & style. Mazatlan 30, Paris 98: Paris leads by 68 points.
Affordability. Mazatlan 70, Paris 25: Mazatlan leads by 45 points.
Live music & performing arts. Mazatlan 40, Paris 88: Paris leads by 48 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Mazatlan 35, Paris 40: Paris leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Mazatlan and Paris.

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.

Paris
Best match
70match

Wins on shopping 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.

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

Paris in July

26 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
58 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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MazatlanParis

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). Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMazatlanParis
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaFrench
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation139 m27 m
Main airportGeneral Rafael Buelna International Airport (MZT)16 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMazatlanParis
City population441,9752,103,778
People per km²-19,960
Museums within 10 km3251
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.