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The Jet d'Eau and a lake boat, Geneva
GenevaThe Jet d'Eau and a lake boat
A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco

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

Geneva 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 Geneva for

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Los Cabos for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • prices

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. Geneva 45, Los Cabos 84: Los Cabos leads by 39 points.
Food & drink. Geneva 55, Los Cabos 54: Geneva leads by 1 points.
Culture & sights. Geneva 58, Los Cabos 20: Geneva leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Geneva 38, Los Cabos 66: Los Cabos leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Geneva 82, Los Cabos 78: Geneva leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Geneva 80, Los Cabos 42: Geneva leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Geneva 57, Los Cabos 55: Geneva leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Geneva 86, Los Cabos 28: Geneva leads by 58 points.
Shopping & style. Geneva 68, Los Cabos 36: Geneva leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Geneva 5, Los Cabos 28: Los Cabos leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Geneva 60, Los Cabos 12: Geneva leads by 48 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Geneva 55, Los Cabos 58: Los Cabos leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Geneva and Los Cabos.

Your match

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

Geneva
Best match
57match

Wins on getting around and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Los Cabos
47match

Wins on beaches 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.

Geneva in July

27 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
77 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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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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. Geneva: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (5.7 km from centre). Los Cabos: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureGenevaLos Cabos
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7
Emergency number112911
Elevation403 m11 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)5 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenevaLos Cabos
City population211,152202,694
People per km²13,280-
Museums within 10 km341
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national 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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.