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A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco
The Grand Lisboa above the Macau skyline, Macau
MacauThe Grand Lisboa above the Macau skyline

Photos: Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License; Macau by tian Jin, Pexels License.

Los Cabos or Macau?

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 Los Cabos for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • nightlife

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

Choose Macau for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Macau’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. Los Cabos 84, Macau 24: Los Cabos leads by 60 points.
Food & drink. Los Cabos 54, Macau 77: Macau leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Los Cabos 20, Macau 62: Macau leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Los Cabos 66, Macau 40: Los Cabos leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Cabos 78, Macau 5: Los Cabos leads by 73 points.
Day trips. Los Cabos 42, Macau 52: Macau leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Los Cabos 55, Macau 48: Los Cabos leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Los Cabos 28, Macau 60: Macau leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Los Cabos 36, Macau 58: Macau leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Los Cabos 28, Macau 44: Macau leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Cabos 12, Macau 36: Macau leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Cabos 58, Macau 40: Los Cabos leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Cabos and Macau.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Los Cabos
47match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches with your weighting.

Macau
46match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Macau in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
281 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Los CabosMacau

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. Los Cabos: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Macau: 1991-2020 normals, Taipa (3.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos CabosMacau
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaPortuguese, Cantonese, Standard Chinese
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Pataca (MOP)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzFGM220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7UTC+8
Emergency number911999
Elevation11 m22 m
Main airportLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsMacau International Airport (MFM)7 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days-

By the numbers

MeasureLos CabosMacau
City population202,694682,100
People per km²-5,916
Museums within 10 km128
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months8 months

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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.