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A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco
Place d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal
MontrealPlace d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica

Photos: Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License; Montreal by Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Los Cabos or Montreal?

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 Montreal for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Montreal’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, Montreal 25: Los Cabos leads by 59 points.
Food & drink. Los Cabos 54, Montreal 78: Montreal leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Los Cabos 20, Montreal 60: Montreal leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Los Cabos 66, Montreal 75: Montreal leads by 9 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Cabos 78, Montreal 66: Los Cabos leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Los Cabos 42, Montreal 55: Montreal leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Los Cabos 55, Montreal 68: Montreal leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Los Cabos 28, Montreal 72: Montreal leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Los Cabos 36, Montreal 60: Montreal leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Los Cabos 28, Montreal 45: Montreal leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Cabos 12, Montreal 76: Montreal leads by 64 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Cabos 58, Montreal 57: Los Cabos leads by 1 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Cabos and Montreal.

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.

Montreal
Best match
61match

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

Montreal in July

27 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
98 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Los CabosMontreal

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. Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos CabosMontreal
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaFrench, English
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation11 m31 m
Main airportLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre166 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos CabosMontreal
City population202,6941,895,211
People per km²-3,806
Museums within 10 km137
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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.