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The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón
A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco

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

Buenos Aires 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 Buenos Aires for

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

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

Choose Los Cabos for

  • beaches
  • 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. Buenos Aires 7, Los Cabos 84: Los Cabos leads by 77 points.
Food & drink. Buenos Aires 75, Los Cabos 54: Buenos Aires leads by 21 points.
Culture & sights. Buenos Aires 71, Los Cabos 20: Buenos Aires leads by 51 points.
Nightlife. Buenos Aires 95, Los Cabos 66: Buenos Aires leads by 29 points.
Nature & outdoors. Buenos Aires 38, Los Cabos 78: Los Cabos leads by 40 points.
Day trips. Buenos Aires 60, Los Cabos 42: Buenos Aires leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Buenos Aires 52, Los Cabos 55: Los Cabos leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Buenos Aires 62, Los Cabos 28: Buenos Aires leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Buenos Aires 60, Los Cabos 36: Buenos Aires leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Buenos Aires 55, Los Cabos 28: Buenos Aires leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Buenos Aires 75, Los Cabos 12: Buenos Aires leads by 63 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Buenos Aires 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: Buenos Aires and Los Cabos.

Your match

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

Buenos Aires
Best match
57match

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.

Buenos Aires in July

15 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
50 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
13 °Csea
10 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. Buenos Aires: 1991-2020 normals, Aeroparque Bs. As. Aerodrome (4.9 km from centre). Los Cabos: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureBuenos AiresLos Cabos
Official languageSpanishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC-7
Emergency number117 or 911911
Elevation25 m11 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresLos Cabos
City population3,121,707202,694
People per km²15,355-
Museums within 10 km761
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months12 months

Where else could you go?

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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). 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. 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.