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A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco
The Koutoubia Mosque from its gardens, Marrakech
MarrakechThe Koutoubia Mosque from its gardens

Photos: Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License; Marrakech by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Los Cabos or Marrakech?

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
  • nightlife
  • families

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

Choose Marrakech for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Marrakech’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, Marrakech 7: Los Cabos leads by 77 points.
Food & drink. Los Cabos 54, Marrakech 64: Marrakech leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Los Cabos 20, Marrakech 76: Marrakech leads by 56 points.
Nightlife. Los Cabos 66, Marrakech 33: Los Cabos leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Cabos 78, Marrakech 70: Los Cabos leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Los Cabos 42, Marrakech 28: Los Cabos leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Los Cabos 55, Marrakech 25: Los Cabos leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Los Cabos 28, Marrakech 38: Marrakech leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Los Cabos 36, Marrakech 72: Marrakech leads by 36 points.
Affordability. Los Cabos 28, Marrakech 72: Marrakech leads by 44 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Cabos 12, Marrakech 25: Marrakech leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Cabos 58, Marrakech 75: Marrakech leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Cabos and Marrakech.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Los Cabos
47match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Marrakech
49match

Wins on culture and sights and prices 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

Marrakech in July

38 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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.

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. Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos CabosMarrakech
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7UTC+1
Emergency number911Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation11 m465 m
Main airportLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre113 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos CabosMarrakech
City population202,6941,002,697
People per km²-4,360
Museums within 10 km114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. 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.