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The Istiqlal Mosque, Jakarta
JakartaThe Istiqlal Mosque
A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco

Photos: Jakarta by Antonyus Bunjamin, Pexels License; Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License.

Jakarta 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 Jakarta for

  • prices
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Jakarta’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. Jakarta 28, Los Cabos 84: Los Cabos leads by 56 points.
Food & drink. Jakarta 78, Los Cabos 54: Jakarta leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Jakarta 48, Los Cabos 20: Jakarta leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Jakarta and Los Cabos are level on 66.
Nature & outdoors. Jakarta 30, Los Cabos 78: Los Cabos leads by 48 points.
Day trips. Jakarta 45, Los Cabos 42: Jakarta leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Jakarta 50, Los Cabos 55: Los Cabos leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Jakarta 36, Los Cabos 28: Jakarta leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Jakarta 64, Los Cabos 36: Jakarta leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Jakarta 80, Los Cabos 28: Jakarta leads by 52 points.
Live music & performing arts. Jakarta 42, Los Cabos 12: Jakarta leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Jakarta 46, Los Cabos 58: Los Cabos leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Jakarta and Los Cabos.

Your match

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

Jakarta
Best match
51match

Wins on prices and live music and the arts 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.

Jakarta in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
85 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
12 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. Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre). Los Cabos: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureJakartaLos Cabos
Official languageIndonesianSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-7
Emergency number112911
Elevation91 m11 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre89 non-stop destinationsLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-9 days

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaLos Cabos
City population11,135,191202,694
People per km²16,821-
Museums within 10 km441
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.