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The beach with its parasols and the boardwalk, Bethany Beach
Bethany BeachThe beach with its parasols and the boardwalk
A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco

Photos: Bethany Beach by Doug Olson, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License.

Bethany Beach 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 Bethany Beach for

  • families
  • getting around
  • day trips

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

Choose Los Cabos for

  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors
  • 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. Bethany Beach 72, Los Cabos 84: Los Cabos leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Bethany Beach 35, Los Cabos 54: Los Cabos leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Bethany Beach 10, Los Cabos 20: Los Cabos leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Bethany Beach 12, Los Cabos 66: Los Cabos leads by 54 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bethany Beach 48, Los Cabos 78: Los Cabos leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Bethany Beach 45, Los Cabos 42: Bethany Beach leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Bethany Beach 66, Los Cabos 55: Bethany Beach leads by 11 points.
Getting around. Bethany Beach 33, Los Cabos 28: Bethany Beach leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Bethany Beach 28, Los Cabos 36: Los Cabos leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Bethany Beach 30, Los Cabos 28: Bethany Beach leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bethany Beach 14, Los Cabos 12: Bethany Beach leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bethany Beach 33, Los Cabos 58: Los Cabos leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bethany Beach and Los Cabos.

Your match

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

Bethany Beach
36match

Wins on families and getting around with your weighting.

Los Cabos
Best match
47match

Wins on nightlife and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Bethany Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
95 mmrain in the month
23 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Los Cabos in July

30 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
19 mmrain in the month
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

Bethany Beach's temperatures are measured 45 km from the centre, at Salisbury / Quail Ridge.

Bethany Beach 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.

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. Bethany Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Salisbury / Quail Ridge (44.9 km from centre). Los Cabos: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureBethany BeachLos Cabos
Official language-Spanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-7
Emergency number911911
Elevation3 m11 m
Main airportSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)45 km from centre4 non-stop destinationsLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBethany BeachLos Cabos
City population954202,694
People per km²318-
Museums within 10 km01
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months12 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.