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A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco
Brooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan, New York
New YorkBrooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan

Photos: Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License; New York by Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Los Cabos or New York?

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
  • prices

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

Choose New York for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on New York’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 York 50: Los Cabos leads by 34 points.
Food & drink. Los Cabos 54, New York 92: New York leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Los Cabos 20, New York 89: New York leads by 69 points.
Nightlife. Los Cabos 66, New York 97: New York leads by 31 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Cabos 78, New York 55: Los Cabos leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Los Cabos 42, New York 68: New York leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Los Cabos 55, New York 70: New York leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Los Cabos 28, New York 82: New York leads by 54 points.
Shopping & style. Los Cabos 36, New York 97: New York leads by 61 points.
Affordability. Los Cabos 28, New York 12: Los Cabos leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Cabos 12, New York 99: New York leads by 87 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Cabos 58, New York 42: Los Cabos leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Cabos and New York.

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 York
Best match
71match

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 York in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
107 mmrain in the month
22 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Los CabosNew York

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 York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos CabosNew York
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 m25 m
Main airportLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos CabosNew York
City population202,6948,804,190
People per km²-7,256
Museums within 10 km1157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months3 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.