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A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco
The SkyWheel by the beach, Myrtle Beach
Myrtle BeachThe SkyWheel by the beach

Photos: Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License; Myrtle Beach by The ed17, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Los Cabos or Myrtle Beach?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • nightlife

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

Choose Myrtle Beach for

  • families
  • prices
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Myrtle Beach’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 and Myrtle Beach are level on 84.
Food & drink. Los Cabos 54, Myrtle Beach 38: Los Cabos leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Los Cabos and Myrtle Beach are level on 20.
Nightlife. Los Cabos 66, Myrtle Beach 42: Los Cabos leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Cabos 78, Myrtle Beach 46: Los Cabos leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Los Cabos 42, Myrtle Beach 50: Myrtle Beach leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Los Cabos 55, Myrtle Beach 80: Myrtle Beach leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Los Cabos 28, Myrtle Beach 18: Los Cabos leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Los Cabos 36, Myrtle Beach 38: Myrtle Beach leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Los Cabos 28, Myrtle Beach 52: Myrtle Beach leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Cabos 12, Myrtle Beach 30: Myrtle Beach leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Cabos 58, Myrtle Beach 28: Los Cabos leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Cabos and Myrtle Beach.

Your match

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

Los Cabos
Best match
47match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and wellness with your weighting.

Myrtle Beach
44match

Wins on families and prices 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
26 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Myrtle Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
172 mmrain in the month
28 °Csea
14 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.

Myrtle Beach has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

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. Myrtle Beach: 1971-2000 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Myrtle Beach Air Force Base (5.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos CabosMyrtle Beach
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya-
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation11 m8 m
Main airportLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsMyrtle Beach International Airport (MYR)5 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos CabosMyrtle Beach
City population202,69435,682
People per km²-591
Museums within 10 km12
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months6 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.