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A dhow below the towers of West Bay, Doha
DohaA dhow below the towers of West Bay
A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco

Photos: Doha by Gregory Hawken Kramer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License.

Doha 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 Doha for

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

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

Choose Los Cabos for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife
  • beaches

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. Doha 45, Los Cabos 84: Los Cabos leads by 39 points.
Food & drink. Doha 55, Los Cabos 54: Doha leads by 1 points.
Culture & sights. Doha 55, Los Cabos 20: Doha leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Doha 20, Los Cabos 66: Los Cabos leads by 46 points.
Nature & outdoors. Doha 7, Los Cabos 78: Los Cabos leads by 71 points.
Day trips. Doha 5, Los Cabos 42: Los Cabos leads by 37 points.
Good for families. Doha 60, Los Cabos 55: Doha leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Doha 45, Los Cabos 28: Doha leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Doha 60, Los Cabos 36: Doha leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Doha 38, Los Cabos 28: Doha leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Doha 30, Los Cabos 12: Doha leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Doha 38, Los Cabos 58: Los Cabos leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Doha and Los Cabos.

Your match

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

Doha
38match

Wins on culture and sights and shopping with your weighting.

Los Cabos
Best match
47match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Doha in July

43 °Cdaytime high
33 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
33 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Los Cabos in July

30 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
19 mmrain in the month
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. Doha: 1991-2020 normals, Doha International Airport (5.5 km from centre). Los Cabos: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureDohaLos Cabos
Official languageArabicSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyQatari Rial (QAR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-7
Emergency number999911
Elevation0 m11 m
Main airportHamad International Airport (DOH)8 km from centre195 non-stop destinationsLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-9 days

By the numbers

MeasureDohaLos Cabos
City population1,186,023202,694
People per km²8,985-
Museums within 10 km61
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C9 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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.