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A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco
Stari Most and the old town, Mostar
MostarStari Most and the old town

Photos: Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License; Mostar by Alan Wang, Pexels License.

Los Cabos or Mostar?

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
  • nightlife
  • wellness

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

Choose Mostar for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Mostar’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, Mostar 24: Los Cabos leads by 60 points.
Food & drink. Los Cabos 54, Mostar 40: Los Cabos leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Los Cabos 20, Mostar 54: Mostar leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Los Cabos 66, Mostar 25: Los Cabos leads by 41 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Cabos 78, Mostar 64: Los Cabos leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Los Cabos 42, Mostar 60: Mostar leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Los Cabos 55, Mostar 34: Los Cabos leads by 21 points.
Getting around. Los Cabos 28, Mostar 44: Mostar leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Los Cabos 36, Mostar 32: Los Cabos leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Los Cabos 28, Mostar 78: Mostar leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Cabos 12, Mostar 16: Mostar leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Cabos 58, Mostar 20: Los Cabos leads by 38 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Cabos and Mostar.

Your match

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

Los Cabos
Best match
47match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Mostar
41match

Wins on prices 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
No recordsunshine a day
26 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Mostar in July

33 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
54 mmrain in the month
11 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 CabosMostar

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. Mostar: 1991-2020 normals, Mostar (0.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos CabosMostar
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaCroatian, Serbian, Bosnian
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Convertible Mark (BAM)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation11 m60 m
Main airportLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)68 km from centre38 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos CabosMostar
City population202,694105,448
People per km²-90
Museums within 10 km13
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

Where else could you go?

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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.