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A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco
The Eiffel Tower from the Trocadéro, Paris
ParisThe Eiffel Tower from the Trocadéro

Photos: Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License; Paris by Efrem Efre, Pexels License.

Los Cabos or Paris?

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 Paris for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Paris’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, Paris 9: Los Cabos leads by 75 points.
Food & drink. Los Cabos 54, Paris 96: Paris leads by 42 points.
Culture & sights. Los Cabos 20, Paris 97: Paris leads by 77 points.
Nightlife. Los Cabos 66, Paris 80: Paris leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Cabos 78, Paris 52: Los Cabos leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Los Cabos 42, Paris 92: Paris leads by 50 points.
Good for families. Los Cabos 55, Paris 79: Paris leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Los Cabos 28, Paris 88: Paris leads by 60 points.
Shopping & style. Los Cabos 36, Paris 98: Paris leads by 62 points.
Affordability. Los Cabos 28, Paris 25: Los Cabos leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Cabos 12, Paris 88: Paris leads by 76 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Cabos 58, Paris 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 Paris.

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.

Paris
Best match
70match

Wins on culture and sights 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
26 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Paris in July

26 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
58 mmrain in the month
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Los CabosParis

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. Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos CabosParis
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 m27 m
Main airportLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos CabosParis
City population202,6942,103,778
People per km²-19,960
Museums within 10 km1251
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
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. 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.