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The Adelaide skyline and the footbridge over the River Torrens, Adelaide
AdelaideThe Adelaide skyline and the footbridge over the River Torrens
A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco

Photos: Adelaide by Ardash Muradian, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License.

Adelaide or Los Cabos?

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 Adelaide for

  • live music and the arts
  • getting around
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Los Cabos for

  • nightlife
  • beaches
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Los Cabos’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. Adelaide 68, Los Cabos 84: Los Cabos leads by 16 points.
Food & drink. Adelaide 72, Los Cabos 54: Adelaide leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Adelaide 48, Los Cabos 20: Adelaide leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Adelaide 42, Los Cabos 66: Los Cabos leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Adelaide 66, Los Cabos 78: Los Cabos leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Adelaide 60, Los Cabos 42: Adelaide leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Adelaide 70, Los Cabos 55: Adelaide leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Adelaide 57, Los Cabos 28: Adelaide leads by 29 points.
Shopping & style. Adelaide 44, Los Cabos 36: Adelaide leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Adelaide 40, Los Cabos 28: Adelaide leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Adelaide 63, Los Cabos 12: Adelaide leads by 51 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Adelaide 42, Los Cabos 58: Los Cabos leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Adelaide and Los Cabos.

Your match

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

Adelaide
Best match
56match

Wins on live music and the arts and getting around with your weighting.

Los Cabos
47match

Wins on nightlife and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Adelaide in July

16 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
72 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
14 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Los Cabos in July

30 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
19 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
26 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Los Cabos has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Adelaide: 1991-2020 normals, Adelaide (West Terrace / ngayirdapira) (3.1 km from centre). Los Cabos: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureAdelaideLos Cabos
Official languageEnglishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9:30, UTC+10:30 in summerUTC-7
Emergency number000911
Elevation1 m11 m
Main airportAdelaide International Airport (ADL)6 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureAdelaideLos Cabos
City population1,387,290202,694
People per km²1,071-
Museums within 10 km131
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months12 months

Where else could you go?

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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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.