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Inverness Castle above the River Ness, Inverness
InvernessInverness Castle above the River Ness
A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco

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

Inverness 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 Inverness for

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

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

Choose Los Cabos for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • 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. Inverness 20, Los Cabos 84: Los Cabos leads by 64 points.
Food & drink. Inverness 36, Los Cabos 54: Los Cabos leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Inverness 27, Los Cabos 20: Inverness leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Inverness 28, Los Cabos 66: Los Cabos leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Inverness 84, Los Cabos 78: Inverness leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Inverness 56, Los Cabos 42: Inverness leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Inverness and Los Cabos are level on 55.
Getting around. Inverness 48, Los Cabos 28: Inverness leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Inverness 30, Los Cabos 36: Los Cabos leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Inverness 38, Los Cabos 28: Inverness leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Inverness 33, Los Cabos 12: Inverness leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Inverness 30, Los Cabos 58: Los Cabos leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Inverness and Los Cabos.

Your match

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

Inverness
40match

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

Los Cabos
Best match
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.

Inverness in July

19 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
69 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
14 °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

Inverness 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.

Inverness's sunshine is measured 43 km from the centre, at Kinloss.

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. Inverness: 2005-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Inverness / Dalcross (11.9 km from centre). Los Cabos: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureInvernessLos Cabos
Official languageEnglishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-7
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation7 m11 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessLos Cabos
City population47,380202,694
People per km²2,289-
Museums within 10 km31
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.