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Ferries off the Kordon promenade, Izmir
IzmirFerries off the Kordon promenade
A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco

Photos: Izmir by Toygar Par, Pexels License; Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License.

Izmir 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 Izmir for

  • day trips
  • prices
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Los Cabos for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • 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. Izmir 62, Los Cabos 84: Los Cabos leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Izmir 72, Los Cabos 54: Izmir leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Izmir 55, Los Cabos 20: Izmir leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Izmir 60, Los Cabos 66: Los Cabos leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Izmir 66, Los Cabos 78: Los Cabos leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Izmir 86, Los Cabos 42: Izmir leads by 44 points.
Good for families. Izmir and Los Cabos are level on 55.
Getting around. Izmir 63, Los Cabos 28: Izmir leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. Izmir 55, Los Cabos 36: Izmir leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Izmir 66, Los Cabos 28: Izmir leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Izmir 48, Los Cabos 12: Izmir leads by 36 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Izmir 57, Los Cabos 58: Los Cabos leads by 1 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Izmir and Los Cabos.

Your match

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

Izmir
Best match
62match

Wins on day trips and prices 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.

Izmir in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
23 °Csea
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. Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre). Los Cabos: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureIzmirLos Cabos
Official languageTurkishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-7
Emergency number112911
Elevation2 m11 m
Main airportAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureIzmirLos Cabos
City population4,493,242202,694
People per km²4,760-
Museums within 10 km291
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 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. 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.