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A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco
The arch at the entrance to the boardwalk, Ocean City, Maryland
Ocean City, MarylandThe arch at the entrance to the boardwalk

Photos: Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License; Ocean City, Maryland by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Los Cabos or Ocean City, Maryland?

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

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife

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

Choose Ocean City, Maryland for

  • families
  • prices
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Ocean City, Maryland’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, Ocean City, Maryland 78: Los Cabos leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Los Cabos 54, Ocean City, Maryland 40: Los Cabos leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Los Cabos 20, Ocean City, Maryland 14: Los Cabos leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Los Cabos 66, Ocean City, Maryland 45: Los Cabos leads by 21 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Cabos 78, Ocean City, Maryland 50: Los Cabos leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Los Cabos and Ocean City, Maryland are level on 42.
Good for families. Los Cabos 55, Ocean City, Maryland 78: Ocean City, Maryland leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Los Cabos 28, Ocean City, Maryland 34: Ocean City, Maryland leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Los Cabos 36, Ocean City, Maryland 24: Los Cabos leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Los Cabos 28, Ocean City, Maryland 40: Ocean City, Maryland leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Cabos 12, Ocean City, Maryland 18: Ocean City, Maryland leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Cabos 58, Ocean City, Maryland 22: Los Cabos leads by 36 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Cabos and Ocean City, Maryland.

Your match

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

Los Cabos
Best match
47match

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

Ocean City, Maryland
40match

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

Ocean City, Maryland in July

29 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
96 mmrain in the month
24 °Csea
15 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.

Ocean City, Maryland 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. Ocean City, Maryland: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Ocean City / Morris Mobile Home Park (10.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos CabosOcean City, Maryland
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 m2 m
Main airportLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)39 km from centre4 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos CabosOcean City, Maryland
City population202,6946,844
People per km²-73
Museums within 10 km10
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.