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A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco
The Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, Muscat
MuscatThe Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque

Photos: Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License; Muscat by Alli Khalil, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Los Cabos or Muscat?

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

  • nightlife
  • beaches
  • food and drink

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

Choose Muscat for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Muscat’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, Muscat 72: Los Cabos leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Los Cabos 54, Muscat 44: Los Cabos leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Los Cabos 20, Muscat 55: Muscat leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Los Cabos 66, Muscat 14: Los Cabos leads by 52 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Cabos 78, Muscat 70: Los Cabos leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Los Cabos 42, Muscat 62: Muscat leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Los Cabos 55, Muscat 52: Los Cabos leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Los Cabos 28, Muscat 20: Los Cabos leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Los Cabos 36, Muscat 42: Muscat leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Los Cabos 28, Muscat 45: Muscat leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Cabos 12, Muscat 40: Muscat leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Cabos 58, Muscat 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 Muscat.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Los Cabos
47match

Wins on nightlife and beaches with your weighting.

Muscat
48match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts 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

Muscat in July

33 °Cdaytime high
30 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
31 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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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.

Muscat's sunshine is measured 32 km from the centre, at Seeb, International Airport.

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. Muscat: 1991-2020 normals, Qaboos Port (3.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos CabosMuscat
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaArabic
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Rial Omani (OMR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7UTC+4
Emergency number911968
Elevation11 m69 m
Main airportLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsMuscat International Airport (MCT)31 km from centre83 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days-

By the numbers

MeasureLos CabosMuscat
City population202,6941,421,409
People per km²-406
Museums within 10 km110
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 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.