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Swayambhunath with its prayer flags, Kathmandu
KathmanduSwayambhunath with its prayer flags
A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco

Photos: Kathmandu by Nabin K. Sapkota, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License.

Kathmandu 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 Kathmandu for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

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

Choose Los Cabos for

  • beaches
  • families
  • 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. Kathmandu 4, Los Cabos 84: Los Cabos leads by 80 points.
Food & drink. Kathmandu 55, Los Cabos 54: Kathmandu leads by 1 points.
Culture & sights. Kathmandu 82, Los Cabos 20: Kathmandu leads by 62 points.
Nightlife. Kathmandu 36, Los Cabos 66: Los Cabos leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Kathmandu 70, Los Cabos 78: Los Cabos leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Kathmandu 56, Los Cabos 42: Kathmandu leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Kathmandu 20, Los Cabos 55: Los Cabos leads by 35 points.
Getting around. Kathmandu 25, Los Cabos 28: Los Cabos leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Kathmandu 55, Los Cabos 36: Kathmandu leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Kathmandu 97, Los Cabos 28: Kathmandu leads by 69 points.
Live music & performing arts. Kathmandu 28, Los Cabos 12: Kathmandu leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Kathmandu 45, Los Cabos 58: Los Cabos leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Kathmandu and Los Cabos.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Kathmandu
48match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Los Cabos
47match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Kathmandu in July

29 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
384 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 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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KathmanduLos Cabos

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. Kathmandu: 1991-2020 normals, Kathmandu Airport (4.7 km from centre). Los Cabos: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureKathmanduLos Cabos
Official languageNepaliSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyNepalese Rupee (NPR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCM230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+5:45UTC-7
Emergency numberPolice 100, ambulance 102, fire 101911
Elevation1,300 m11 m
Main airportTribhuvan International Airport (KTM)4 km from centre38 non-stop destinationsLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-9 days

By the numbers

MeasureKathmanduLos Cabos
City population845,767202,694
People per km²17,121-
Museums within 10 km91
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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.