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A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco
The steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi, New Orleans
New OrleansThe steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi

Photos: Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License; New Orleans by Bernard Spragg, CC0.

Los Cabos or New Orleans?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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

Choose New Orleans for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on New Orleans’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, New Orleans 14: Los Cabos leads by 70 points.
Food & drink. Los Cabos 54, New Orleans 84: New Orleans leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Los Cabos 20, New Orleans 67: New Orleans leads by 47 points.
Nightlife. Los Cabos 66, New Orleans 85: New Orleans leads by 19 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Cabos 78, New Orleans 42: Los Cabos leads by 36 points.
Day trips. Los Cabos 42, New Orleans 52: New Orleans leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Los Cabos and New Orleans are level on 55.
Getting around. Los Cabos 28, New Orleans 55: New Orleans leads by 27 points.
Shopping & style. Los Cabos 36, New Orleans 54: New Orleans leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Los Cabos 28, New Orleans 40: New Orleans leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Cabos 12, New Orleans 80: New Orleans leads by 68 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Cabos 58, New Orleans 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 New Orleans.

Your match

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

Los Cabos
47match

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

New Orleans
Best match
54match

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
26 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

New Orleans in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
169 mmrain in the month
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Los CabosNew Orleans

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. New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos CabosNew Orleans
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya-
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7UTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation11 m-2 m
Main airportLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos CabosNew Orleans
City population202,694383,997
People per km²-423
Museums within 10 km116
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months7 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.