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A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco
The Frauenkirche towers and the Mariensäule, Munich
MunichThe Frauenkirche towers and the Mariensäule

Photos: Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License; Munich by 0xd1ma, Pexels License.

Los Cabos or Munich?

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

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

Choose Munich for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Munich’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, Munich 28: Los Cabos leads by 56 points.
Food & drink. Los Cabos 54, Munich 62: Munich leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Los Cabos 20, Munich 79: Munich leads by 59 points.
Nightlife. Los Cabos 66, Munich 56: Los Cabos leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Cabos 78, Munich 82: Munich leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Los Cabos 42, Munich 86: Munich leads by 44 points.
Good for families. Los Cabos 55, Munich 78: Munich leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Los Cabos 28, Munich 86: Munich leads by 58 points.
Shopping & style. Los Cabos 36, Munich 72: Munich leads by 36 points.
Affordability. Los Cabos 28, Munich 32: Munich leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Cabos 12, Munich 84: Munich leads by 72 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Cabos 58, Munich 62: Munich leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Cabos and Munich.

Your match

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

Los Cabos
47match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Munich
Best match
67match

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
No recordsunshine a day
26 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Munich in July

25 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
119 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Los CabosMunich

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. Munich: 1991-2020 normals, München (1.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos CabosMunich
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaGerman
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation11 m519 m
Main airportLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsMunich Airport (MUC)29 km from centre210 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos CabosMunich
City population202,6941,505,036
People per km²-4,844
Museums within 10 km174
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. 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.