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The red five-storey pagoda of Tocho-ji, Fukuoka
FukuokaThe red five-storey pagoda of Tocho-ji
A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco

Photos: Fukuoka by Nick-D, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License.

Fukuoka 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 Fukuoka for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Los Cabos for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • 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. Fukuoka 50, Los Cabos 84: Los Cabos leads by 34 points.
Food & drink. Fukuoka 82, Los Cabos 54: Fukuoka leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Fukuoka 50, Los Cabos 20: Fukuoka leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Fukuoka 60, Los Cabos 66: Los Cabos leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fukuoka 62, Los Cabos 78: Los Cabos leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Fukuoka 84, Los Cabos 42: Fukuoka leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Fukuoka 78, Los Cabos 55: Fukuoka leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Fukuoka 82, Los Cabos 28: Fukuoka leads by 54 points.
Shopping & style. Fukuoka 65, Los Cabos 36: Fukuoka leads by 29 points.
Affordability. Fukuoka 58, Los Cabos 28: Fukuoka leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fukuoka 45, Los Cabos 12: Fukuoka leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fukuoka 60, Los Cabos 58: Fukuoka leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fukuoka and Los Cabos.

Your match

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

Fukuoka
Best match
65match

Wins on getting around and day trips 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.

Fukuoka in July

31 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
301 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
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. Fukuoka: 1991-2020 normals, Fukuoka (1.9 km from centre). Los Cabos: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureFukuokaLos Cabos
Official languageJapaneseSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyYen (JPY)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC-7
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119911
Elevation8 m11 m
Main airportFukuoka Airport (FUK)5 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureFukuokaLos Cabos
City population1,603,043202,694
People per km²4,715-
Museums within 10 km231
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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). 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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.