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A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco
The Nairobi skyline with the KICC tower, Nairobi
NairobiThe Nairobi skyline with the KICC tower

Photos: Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License; Nairobi by Lmwangi, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Los Cabos or Nairobi?

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
  • wellness
  • day trips

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

Choose Nairobi for

  • prices
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Nairobi’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, Nairobi 4: Los Cabos leads by 80 points.
Food & drink. Los Cabos 54, Nairobi 48: Los Cabos leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Los Cabos 20, Nairobi 35: Nairobi leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Los Cabos 66, Nairobi 58: Los Cabos leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Cabos 78, Nairobi 84: Nairobi leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Los Cabos 42, Nairobi 28: Los Cabos leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Los Cabos and Nairobi are level on 55.
Getting around. Los Cabos 28, Nairobi 20: Los Cabos leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Los Cabos 36, Nairobi 45: Nairobi leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Los Cabos 28, Nairobi 60: Nairobi leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Cabos 12, Nairobi 35: Nairobi leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Cabos 58, Nairobi 25: Los Cabos leads by 33 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Cabos and Nairobi.

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 wellness with your weighting.

Nairobi
41match

Wins on prices 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

Nairobi in July

24 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
11 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Los CabosNairobi

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. Nairobi: 1991-2020 normals, Nairobi ACC/FIC/RCC/MET/COM/ (13.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos CabosNairobi
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaEnglish, Swahili
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Kenyan Shilling (KES)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7UTC+3
Emergency number911Police 112/999, ambulance 112/999, fire 112/999
Elevation11 m1,661 m
Main airportLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsJomo Kenyatta International Airport (NBO)13 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos CabosNairobi
City population202,6945,545,000
People per km²-7,967
Museums within 10 km14
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.