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Bodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour, Bodrum
BodrumBodrum Castle and gulets in the harbour
A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco

Photos: Bodrum by Serhio Magpie, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License.

Bodrum 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 Bodrum for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Los Cabos for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • beaches

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. Bodrum 80, Los Cabos 84: Los Cabos leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Bodrum 60, Los Cabos 54: Bodrum leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Bodrum 45, Los Cabos 20: Bodrum leads by 25 points.
Nightlife. Bodrum 65, Los Cabos 66: Los Cabos leads by 1 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bodrum 60, Los Cabos 78: Los Cabos leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Bodrum 72, Los Cabos 42: Bodrum leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Bodrum 66, Los Cabos 55: Bodrum leads by 11 points.
Getting around. Bodrum 42, Los Cabos 28: Bodrum leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Bodrum 45, Los Cabos 36: Bodrum leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Bodrum 38, Los Cabos 28: Bodrum leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bodrum 32, Los Cabos 12: Bodrum leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bodrum 52, Los Cabos 58: Los Cabos leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bodrum and Los Cabos.

Your match

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

Bodrum
Best match
55match

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

Los Cabos
47match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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.

Bodrum in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
2 mmrain in the month
24 °Csea
14 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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BodrumLos Cabos

Where the figures come from

Bodrum's temperatures are measured 43 km from the centre, at Kos Airport.

Bodrum 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. Bodrum: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Kos Airport (42.7 km from centre). Los Cabos: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureBodrumLos Cabos
Official languageTurkishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-7
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m11 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre83 non-stop destinationsLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumLos Cabos
City population175,000202,694
People per km²314-
Museums within 10 km41
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.