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The Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel, Amman
AmmanThe Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel
A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco

Photos: Amman by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License.

Amman 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 Amman for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • prices

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

Choose Los Cabos for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Amman 22, Los Cabos 84: Los Cabos leads by 62 points.
Food & drink. Amman 62, Los Cabos 54: Amman leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Amman 54, Los Cabos 20: Amman leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Amman 32, Los Cabos 66: Los Cabos leads by 34 points.
Nature & outdoors. Amman 45, Los Cabos 78: Los Cabos leads by 33 points.
Day trips. Amman 80, Los Cabos 42: Amman leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Amman 38, Los Cabos 55: Los Cabos leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Amman 30, Los Cabos 28: Amman leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Amman 42, Los Cabos 36: Amman leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Amman 58, Los Cabos 28: Amman leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Amman 27, Los Cabos 12: Amman leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Amman 55, Los Cabos 58: Los Cabos leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Amman and Los Cabos.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Amman
45match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights with your weighting.

Los Cabos
47match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Amman in July

33 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 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

Amman 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.

Amman's sunshine is measured 55 km from the centre, at Mafraq.

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. Amman: 1994-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Amman Airport (6 km from centre). Los Cabos: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureAmmanLos Cabos
Official languageArabicSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyJordanian Dinar (JOD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsBCFGJ230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-7
Emergency number911911
Elevation776 m11 m
Main airportQueen Alia International Airport (AMM)26 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-9 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmmanLos Cabos
City population4,007,526202,694
People per km²2,385-
Museums within 10 km81
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.