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The Old Town Clock on Citadel Hill, Halifax
HalifaxThe Old Town Clock on Citadel Hill
A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco

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

Halifax 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 Halifax for

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

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

Choose Los Cabos for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • 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. Halifax 32, Los Cabos 84: Los Cabos leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Halifax 50, Los Cabos 54: Los Cabos leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Halifax 42, Los Cabos 20: Halifax leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Halifax 46, Los Cabos 66: Los Cabos leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Halifax 62, Los Cabos 78: Los Cabos leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Halifax 63, Los Cabos 42: Halifax leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Halifax and Los Cabos are level on 55.
Getting around. Halifax 48, Los Cabos 28: Halifax leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Halifax 35, Los Cabos 36: Los Cabos leads by 1 points.
Affordability. Halifax 38, Los Cabos 28: Halifax leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Halifax 46, Los Cabos 12: Halifax leads by 34 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Halifax 28, Los Cabos 58: Los Cabos leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Halifax and Los Cabos.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Halifax
45match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights 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.

Halifax in July

22 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
101 mmrain in the month
14 °Csea
15 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. Halifax: 1991-2020 normals, Shearwater Airport (6 km from centre). Los Cabos: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureHalifaxLos Cabos
Official languageFrench, EnglishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4, UTC-3 in summerUTC-7
Emergency number911911
Elevation28 m11 m
Main airportHalifax / Stanfield International Airport (YHZ)26 km from centre40 non-stop destinationsLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureHalifaxLos Cabos
City population440,072202,694
People per km²80-
Museums within 10 km151
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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). 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.