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The Fisherman's Bastion, Budapest
BudapestThe Fisherman's Bastion
A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco

Photos: Budapest by Perituss, CC0; Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License.

Budapest 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 Budapest for

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

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

Choose Los Cabos for

  • beaches
  • 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. Budapest 25, Los Cabos 84: Los Cabos leads by 59 points.
Food & drink. Budapest 63, Los Cabos 54: Budapest leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Budapest 80, Los Cabos 20: Budapest leads by 60 points.
Nightlife. Budapest 78, Los Cabos 66: Budapest leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Budapest 58, Los Cabos 78: Los Cabos leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Budapest 68, Los Cabos 42: Budapest leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Budapest 62, Los Cabos 55: Budapest leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Budapest 78, Los Cabos 28: Budapest leads by 50 points.
Shopping & style. Budapest 55, Los Cabos 36: Budapest leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Budapest 62, Los Cabos 28: Budapest leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Budapest 76, Los Cabos 12: Budapest leads by 64 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Budapest 98, Los Cabos 58: Budapest leads by 40 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Budapest and Los Cabos.

Your match

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

Budapest
Best match
67match

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

Los Cabos
47match

Wins on beaches 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.

Budapest in July

27 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
75 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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. Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre). Los Cabos: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureBudapestLos Cabos
Official languageHungarianSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyForint (HUF)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7
Emergency number112911
Elevation117 m11 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre157 non-stop destinationsLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestLos Cabos
City population1,675,777202,694
People per km²3,191-
Museums within 10 km811
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.