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A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco
The opera house on Place de la Comédie, Montpellier
MontpellierThe opera house on Place de la Comédie

Photos: Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License; Montpellier by Peter, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Los Cabos or Montpellier?

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
  • wellness
  • nightlife

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

Choose Montpellier for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Montpellier’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, Montpellier 64: Los Cabos leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Los Cabos 54, Montpellier 64: Montpellier leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Los Cabos 20, Montpellier 60: Montpellier leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Los Cabos 66, Montpellier 56: Los Cabos leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Cabos 78, Montpellier 72: Los Cabos leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Los Cabos 42, Montpellier 85: Montpellier leads by 43 points.
Good for families. Los Cabos 55, Montpellier 62: Montpellier leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Los Cabos 28, Montpellier 74: Montpellier leads by 46 points.
Shopping & style. Los Cabos 36, Montpellier 47: Montpellier leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Los Cabos 28, Montpellier 50: Montpellier leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Cabos 12, Montpellier 63: Montpellier leads by 51 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Cabos 58, Montpellier 42: Los Cabos leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Cabos and Montpellier.

Your match

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

Los Cabos
47match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Montpellier
Best match
62match

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

Montpellier in July

30 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
17 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Los CabosMontpellier

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. Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos CabosMontpellier
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaFrench
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation11 m7 m
Main airportLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos CabosMontpellier
City population202,694310,240
People per km²-5,452
Museums within 10 km114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months2 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.