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A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco
Vieux Nice and the Baie des Anges, Nice
NiceVieux Nice and the Baie des Anges

Photos: Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License; Nice by Daniel Stockman, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Los Cabos or Nice?

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
  • wellness
  • beaches

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

Choose Nice for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Nice’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, Nice 75: Los Cabos leads by 9 points.
Food & drink. Los Cabos 54, Nice 66: Nice leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Los Cabos 20, Nice 64: Nice leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Los Cabos 66, Nice 47: Los Cabos leads by 19 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Cabos 78, Nice 80: Nice leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Los Cabos 42, Nice 87: Nice leads by 45 points.
Good for families. Los Cabos 55, Nice 57: Nice leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Los Cabos 28, Nice 74: Nice leads by 46 points.
Shopping & style. Los Cabos 36, Nice 55: Nice leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Los Cabos 28, Nice 35: Nice leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Cabos 12, Nice 45: Nice leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Cabos 58, Nice 40: Los Cabos leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Cabos and Nice.

Your match

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

Los Cabos
47match

Wins on nightlife and wellness with your weighting.

Nice
Best match
60match

Wins on getting around and day trips 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

Nice in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Los CabosNice

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. Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos CabosNice
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaFrench
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation11 m0 m
Main airportLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos CabosNice
City population202,694357,737
People per km²-4,975
Museums within 10 km117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 months

Where else could you go?

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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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.