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The Elbphilharmonie from the water, Hamburg
HamburgThe Elbphilharmonie from the water
A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco

Photos: Hamburg by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License; Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License.

Hamburg 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 Hamburg for

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

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

Choose Los Cabos for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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. Hamburg 28, Los Cabos 84: Los Cabos leads by 56 points.
Food & drink. Hamburg 55, Los Cabos 54: Hamburg leads by 1 points.
Culture & sights. Hamburg 62, Los Cabos 20: Hamburg leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Hamburg 76, Los Cabos 66: Hamburg leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hamburg 52, Los Cabos 78: Los Cabos leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Hamburg 70, Los Cabos 42: Hamburg leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Hamburg 74, Los Cabos 55: Hamburg leads by 19 points.
Getting around. Hamburg 80, Los Cabos 28: Hamburg leads by 52 points.
Shopping & style. Hamburg 65, Los Cabos 36: Hamburg leads by 29 points.
Affordability. Hamburg 38, Los Cabos 28: Hamburg leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hamburg 80, Los Cabos 12: Hamburg leads by 68 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hamburg 44, Los Cabos 58: Los Cabos leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hamburg and Los Cabos.

Your match

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

Hamburg
Best match
60match

Wins on live music and the arts and getting around 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.

Hamburg in July

23 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
82 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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

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. Hamburg: 1991-2020 normals, Hamburg Airport (9.3 km from centre). Los Cabos: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureHamburgLos Cabos
Official languageGermanSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7
Emergency number112911
Elevation6 m11 m
Main airportHamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM)9 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureHamburgLos Cabos
City population1,869,473202,694
People per km²2,476-
Museums within 10 km771
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

Where else could you go?

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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.