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The Cathedral of Sant'Agata, Catania
CataniaThe Cathedral of Sant'Agata
A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco

Photos: Catania by Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License.

Catania 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 Catania for

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

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

Choose Los Cabos for

  • wellness
  • beaches
  • nightlife

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. Catania 72, Los Cabos 84: Los Cabos leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Catania 77, Los Cabos 54: Catania leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Catania 62, Los Cabos 20: Catania leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Catania 60, Los Cabos 66: Los Cabos leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Catania 83, Los Cabos 78: Catania leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Catania 84, Los Cabos 42: Catania leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Catania 50, Los Cabos 55: Los Cabos leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Catania 48, Los Cabos 28: Catania leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Catania 42, Los Cabos 36: Catania leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Catania 60, Los Cabos 28: Catania leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Catania 55, Los Cabos 12: Catania leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Catania 30, Los Cabos 58: Los Cabos leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Catania and Los Cabos.

Your match

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

Catania
Best match
60match

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

Los Cabos
47match

Wins on wellness and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Catania in July

31 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
9 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 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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Where the figures come from

Catania's sunshine is measured 88 km from the centre, at Messina.

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. Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Fontanarossa (5.2 km from centre). Los Cabos: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureCataniaLos Cabos
Official languageItalianSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7
Emergency number112911
Elevation7 m11 m
Main airportCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre96 non-stop destinationsLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureCataniaLos Cabos
City population311,584202,694
People per km²1,704-
Museums within 10 km251
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
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). 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.