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A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco
The railway viaduct over the canal, Castlefield, Manchester
ManchesterThe railway viaduct over the canal, Castlefield

Photos: Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License; Manchester by IIya Kuzhekin, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Los Cabos or Manchester?

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

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Manchester for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Manchester’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, Manchester 9: Los Cabos leads by 75 points.
Food & drink. Los Cabos 54, Manchester 51: Los Cabos leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Los Cabos 20, Manchester 50: Manchester leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Los Cabos 66, Manchester 72: Manchester leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Cabos 78, Manchester 64: Los Cabos leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Los Cabos 42, Manchester 77: Manchester leads by 35 points.
Good for families. Los Cabos 55, Manchester 58: Manchester leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Los Cabos 28, Manchester 68: Manchester leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Los Cabos 36, Manchester 62: Manchester leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Los Cabos 28, Manchester 42: Manchester leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Cabos 12, Manchester 74: Manchester leads by 62 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Cabos 58, Manchester 15: Los Cabos leads by 43 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Cabos and Manchester.

Your match

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

Los Cabos
47match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Manchester
Best match
54match

Wins on live music and the arts 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

Manchester in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
60 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
17 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. Los Cabos: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos CabosManchester
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaEnglish
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 999
Elevation11 m38 m
Main airportLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre211 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos CabosManchester
City population202,694547,627
People per km²-4,737
Museums within 10 km128
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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.