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Colourful houses in the old town, Mazatlan
MazatlanColourful houses in the old town
Mountain Village under snow, seen from the gondola, Telluride
TellurideMountain Village under snow, seen from the gondola

Photos: Mazatlan by Gzzz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Telluride by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Mazatlan or Telluride?

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 Telluride for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Telluride’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, Telluride 5: Mazatlan leads by 75 points.
Food & drink. Mazatlan 62, Telluride 38: Mazatlan leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Mazatlan 42, Telluride 20: Mazatlan leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Mazatlan 55, Telluride 20: Mazatlan leads by 35 points.
Nature & outdoors. Mazatlan 66, Telluride 93: Telluride leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Mazatlan 45, Telluride 30: Mazatlan leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Mazatlan 60, Telluride 45: Mazatlan leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Mazatlan 42, Telluride 66: Telluride leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Mazatlan 30, Telluride 25: Mazatlan leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Mazatlan 70, Telluride 7: Mazatlan leads by 63 points.
Live music & performing arts. Mazatlan 40, Telluride 35: Mazatlan leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Mazatlan 35, Telluride 45: Telluride leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Mazatlan and Telluride.

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.

Telluride
36match

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

Telluride in July

23 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
58 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

Telluride 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). Telluride: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Telluride / Lime (8.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMazatlanTelluride
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 m2,667 m
Main airportGeneral Rafael Buelna International Airport (MZT)16 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsMontrose Regional Airport (MTJ)64 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMazatlanTelluride
City population441,9752,607
People per km²-1,372
Museums within 10 km30
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.