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A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco
A lifeguard stand on South Beach, Miami
MiamiA lifeguard stand on South Beach

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

Los Cabos or Miami?

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
  • wellness
  • prices

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

Choose Miami for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Miami’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, Miami 90: Miami leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Los Cabos 54, Miami 72: Miami leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Los Cabos 20, Miami 57: Miami leads by 37 points.
Nightlife. Los Cabos 66, Miami 82: Miami leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Cabos 78, Miami 64: Los Cabos leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Los Cabos and Miami are level on 42.
Good for families. Los Cabos 55, Miami 64: Miami leads by 9 points.
Getting around. Los Cabos 28, Miami 35: Miami leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Los Cabos 36, Miami 71: Miami leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Los Cabos 28, Miami 27: Los Cabos leads by 1 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Cabos 12, Miami 55: Miami leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Cabos 58, Miami 44: Los Cabos leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Cabos and Miami.

Your match

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

Los Cabos
47match

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

Miami
Best match
59match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights 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

Miami in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
186 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Los CabosMiami

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. Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos CabosMiami
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya-
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation11 m2 m
Main airportLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre198 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos CabosMiami
City population202,694442,241
People per km²-3,046
Museums within 10 km117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 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.