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A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco
Flinders Street Station, Melbourne
MelbourneFlinders Street Station

Photos: Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License; Melbourne by Medelam, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Los Cabos or Melbourne?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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

Choose Melbourne for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Melbourne’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, Melbourne 50: Los Cabos leads by 34 points.
Food & drink. Los Cabos 54, Melbourne 75: Melbourne leads by 21 points.
Culture & sights. Los Cabos 20, Melbourne 57: Melbourne leads by 37 points.
Nightlife. Los Cabos 66, Melbourne 75: Melbourne leads by 9 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Cabos 78, Melbourne 70: Los Cabos leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Los Cabos 42, Melbourne 62: Melbourne leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Los Cabos 55, Melbourne 73: Melbourne leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Los Cabos 28, Melbourne 76: Melbourne leads by 48 points.
Shopping & style. Los Cabos 36, Melbourne 70: Melbourne leads by 34 points.
Affordability. Los Cabos 28, Melbourne 31: Melbourne leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Cabos 12, Melbourne 72: Melbourne leads by 60 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Cabos 58, Melbourne 54: Los Cabos leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Cabos and Melbourne.

Your match

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

Los Cabos
47match

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

Melbourne
Best match
64match

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

Melbourne in July

14 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
46 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
10 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. Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos CabosMelbourne
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaEnglish
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7UTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number911000
Elevation11 m31 m
Main airportLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre69 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos CabosMelbourne
City population202,6945,350,705
People per km²-535
Museums within 10 km143
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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.