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Colourful houses in the old town, Mazatlan
MazatlanColourful houses in the old town
Main Street in winter, with snow on the mountainside, Park City
Park CityMain Street in winter, with snow on the mountainside

Photos: Mazatlan by Gzzz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Park City by Quang Vuong, Pexels License.

Mazatlan or Park City?

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
  • nightlife

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

Choose Park City for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Park City’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, Park City 8: Mazatlan leads by 72 points.
Food & drink. Mazatlan 62, Park City 40: Mazatlan leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Mazatlan 42, Park City 18: Mazatlan leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Mazatlan 55, Park City 25: Mazatlan leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Mazatlan 66, Park City 92: Park City leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Mazatlan 45, Park City 40: Mazatlan leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Mazatlan 60, Park City 68: Park City leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Mazatlan 42, Park City 60: Park City leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Mazatlan 30, Park City 35: Park City leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Mazatlan 70, Park City 12: Mazatlan leads by 58 points.
Live music & performing arts. Mazatlan 40, Park City 28: Mazatlan leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Mazatlan 35, Park City 52: Park City leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Mazatlan and Park City.

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.

Park City
40match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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

Park City in July

28 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
21 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Park City's temperatures are measured 79 km from the centre, at Evanston.

Park City 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. Mazatlan: 1991-2020 normals, Colonia Juan Carras-Co Mazatlan, Sin. (2 km from centre). Park City: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Evanston (78.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMazatlanPark City
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya-
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation139 m2,134 m
Main airportGeneral Rafael Buelna International Airport (MZT)16 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)43 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMazatlanPark City
City population441,9758,396
People per km²-185
Museums within 10 km31
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.