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The cathedral on Plaza de Bolivar, Bogota
BogotaThe cathedral on Plaza de Bolivar
A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco

Photos: Bogota by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License.

Bogota 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 Bogota for

  • live music and the arts
  • prices
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Los Cabos for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • 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. Bogota 5, Los Cabos 84: Los Cabos leads by 79 points.
Food & drink. Bogota 66, Los Cabos 54: Bogota leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Bogota 68, Los Cabos 20: Bogota leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Bogota 72, Los Cabos 66: Bogota leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bogota 64, Los Cabos 78: Los Cabos leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Bogota 52, Los Cabos 42: Bogota leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Bogota 45, Los Cabos 55: Los Cabos leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Bogota 36, Los Cabos 28: Bogota leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Bogota 52, Los Cabos 36: Bogota leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Bogota 77, Los Cabos 28: Bogota leads by 49 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bogota 64, Los Cabos 12: Bogota leads by 52 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bogota 28, Los Cabos 58: Los Cabos leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bogota and Los Cabos.

Your match

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

Bogota
Best match
52match

Wins on live music and the arts and prices 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.

Bogota in July

17 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
49 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
12 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. Bogota: 1991-2020 normals, Bogota / Eldorado (14.1 km from centre). Los Cabos: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureBogotaLos Cabos
Official languageSpanishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyColombian Peso (COP)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-7
Emergency number123911
Elevation2,582 m11 m
Main airportEl Dorado International Airport (BOG)13 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year19 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBogotaLos Cabos
City population8,034,649202,694
People per km²5,092-
Museums within 10 km301
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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.