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A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco
The Casino de Monte-Carlo, Monaco
MonacoThe Casino de Monte-Carlo

Photos: Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License; Monaco by otterboris, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Los Cabos or Monaco?

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

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • beaches

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

Choose Monaco for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Monaco’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, Monaco 68: Los Cabos leads by 16 points.
Food & drink. Los Cabos 54, Monaco 57: Monaco leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Los Cabos 20, Monaco 55: Monaco leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Los Cabos 66, Monaco 48: Los Cabos leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Cabos 78, Monaco 70: Los Cabos leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Los Cabos 42, Monaco 84: Monaco leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Los Cabos 55, Monaco 60: Monaco leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Los Cabos 28, Monaco 78: Monaco leads by 50 points.
Shopping & style. Los Cabos 36, Monaco 52: Monaco leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Los Cabos 28, Monaco 3: Los Cabos leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Cabos 12, Monaco 63: Monaco leads by 51 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Cabos 58, Monaco 55: Los Cabos leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Cabos and Monaco.

Your match

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

Los Cabos
47match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Monaco
Best match
58match

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

Monaco in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Los CabosMonaco

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. Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos CabosMonaco
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaFrench
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCEF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation11 m68 m
Main airportLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos CabosMonaco
City population202,69438,857
People per km²-18,503
Museums within 10 km114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.