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A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco
The harbour seen from above, Marmaris
MarmarisThe harbour seen from above

Photos: Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License; Marmaris by Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Los Cabos or Marmaris?

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

  • food and drink
  • wellness
  • nightlife

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

Choose Marmaris for

  • prices
  • getting around
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Marmaris’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, Marmaris 80: Los Cabos leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Los Cabos 54, Marmaris 40: Los Cabos leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Los Cabos 20, Marmaris 18: Los Cabos leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Los Cabos 66, Marmaris 60: Los Cabos leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Cabos 78, Marmaris 72: Los Cabos leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Los Cabos 42, Marmaris 65: Marmaris leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Los Cabos 55, Marmaris 62: Marmaris leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Los Cabos 28, Marmaris 55: Marmaris leads by 27 points.
Shopping & style. Los Cabos 36, Marmaris 38: Marmaris leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Los Cabos 28, Marmaris 62: Marmaris leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Cabos and Marmaris are level on 12.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Cabos 58, Marmaris 50: Los Cabos leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Cabos and Marmaris.

Your match

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

Los Cabos
47match

Wins on food and drink and wellness with your weighting.

Marmaris
Best match
51match

Wins on prices 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
26 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Marmaris in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
8 mmrain in the month
25 °Csea
14 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.

Marmaris's temperatures are measured 49 km from the centre, at Dalaman.

Marmaris has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

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. Marmaris: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (48.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos CabosMarmaris
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaTurkish
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7UTC+3
Emergency number911112
Elevation11 m7 m
Main airportLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsDalaman International Airport (DLM)49 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos CabosMarmaris
City population202,69497,818
People per km²-111
Museums within 10 km11
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months6 months

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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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.