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The pyramids of Giza, Cairo
CairoThe pyramids of Giza
A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco

Photos: Cairo by Ricardo Liberato, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License.

Cairo 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 Cairo for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Cairo’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. Cairo 10, Los Cabos 84: Los Cabos leads by 74 points.
Food & drink. Cairo 60, Los Cabos 54: Cairo leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Cairo 96, Los Cabos 20: Cairo leads by 76 points.
Nightlife. Cairo 48, Los Cabos 66: Los Cabos leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cairo 30, Los Cabos 78: Los Cabos leads by 48 points.
Day trips. Cairo 66, Los Cabos 42: Cairo leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Cairo 32, Los Cabos 55: Los Cabos leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Cairo 35, Los Cabos 28: Cairo leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Cairo 58, Los Cabos 36: Cairo leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Cairo 95, Los Cabos 28: Cairo leads by 67 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cairo 50, Los Cabos 12: Cairo leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cairo 15, Los Cabos 58: Los Cabos leads by 43 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cairo and Los Cabos.

Your match

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

Cairo
Best match
50match

Wins on culture and sights and prices 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.

Cairo in July

36 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 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. Cairo: 1991-2020 normals, Helwan (21.9 km from centre). Los Cabos: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureCairoLos Cabos
Official languageArabicSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-7
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180911
Elevation23 m11 m
Main airportCairo International Airport (CAI)17 km from centre127 non-stop destinationsLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureCairoLos Cabos
City population9,801,536202,694
People per km²18,564-
Museums within 10 km481
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
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.