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Titanic Belfast, Belfast
BelfastTitanic Belfast
A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco

Photos: Belfast by Nico Kaiser, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License.

Belfast 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 Belfast for

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

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

Choose Los Cabos for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • nightlife

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. Belfast 20, Los Cabos 84: Los Cabos leads by 64 points.
Food & drink. Belfast 50, Los Cabos 54: Los Cabos leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Belfast 55, Los Cabos 20: Belfast leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Belfast 50, Los Cabos 66: Los Cabos leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Belfast 74, Los Cabos 78: Los Cabos leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Belfast 66, Los Cabos 42: Belfast leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Belfast 58, Los Cabos 55: Belfast leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Belfast 62, Los Cabos 28: Belfast leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Belfast 45, Los Cabos 36: Belfast leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Belfast 48, Los Cabos 28: Belfast leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Belfast 55, Los Cabos 12: Belfast leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Belfast 25, Los Cabos 58: Los Cabos leads by 33 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Belfast and Los Cabos.

Your match

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

Belfast
Best match
51match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights with your weighting.

Los Cabos
47match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Belfast in July

19 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
74 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
17 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. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). Los Cabos: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureBelfastLos Cabos
Official languageEnglishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-7
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation3 m11 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastLos Cabos
City population345,006202,694
People per km²3,000-
Museums within 10 km81
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.