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A galleon on the Motława below the old crane, Gdansk
GdanskA galleon on the Motława below the old crane
A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco

Photos: Gdansk by Nikater, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License.

Gdansk 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 Gdansk for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • prices

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

Choose Los Cabos for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Gdansk 40, Los Cabos 84: Los Cabos leads by 44 points.
Food & drink. Gdansk 50, Los Cabos 54: Los Cabos leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Gdansk 68, Los Cabos 20: Gdansk leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Gdansk 52, Los Cabos 66: Los Cabos leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Gdansk 58, Los Cabos 78: Los Cabos leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Gdansk 62, Los Cabos 42: Gdansk leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Gdansk 62, Los Cabos 55: Gdansk leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Gdansk 72, Los Cabos 28: Gdansk leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Gdansk 42, Los Cabos 36: Gdansk leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Gdansk 68, Los Cabos 28: Gdansk leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Gdansk 52, Los Cabos 12: Gdansk leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Gdansk 36, Los Cabos 58: Los Cabos leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Gdansk and Los Cabos.

Your match

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

Gdansk
Best match
55match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

Los Cabos
47match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Gdansk in July

22 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
85 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
17 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

Gdansk has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Gdansk's sunshine is measured 55 km from the centre, at Elblag.

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. Gdansk: 1991-2020 normals, Gdansk-Rebiechowo (12.7 km from centre). Los Cabos: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureGdanskLos Cabos
Official languagePolishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCE50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7
Emergency number112911
Elevation11 m11 m
Main airportGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre72 non-stop destinationsLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureGdanskLos Cabos
City population487,834202,694
People per km²714-
Museums within 10 km341
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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). 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.