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A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco
The Dzhumaya Mosque, Plovdiv
PlovdivThe Dzhumaya Mosque

Photos: Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License; Plovdiv by Ad Meskens, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Los Cabos or Plovdiv?

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
  • nightlife
  • families

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

Choose Plovdiv for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Plovdiv’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, Plovdiv 7: Los Cabos leads by 77 points.
Food & drink. Los Cabos 54, Plovdiv 50: Los Cabos leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Los Cabos 20, Plovdiv 66: Plovdiv leads by 46 points.
Nightlife. Los Cabos 66, Plovdiv 42: Los Cabos leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Cabos 78, Plovdiv 68: Los Cabos leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Los Cabos 42, Plovdiv 70: Plovdiv leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Los Cabos 55, Plovdiv 40: Los Cabos leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Los Cabos 28, Plovdiv 65: Plovdiv leads by 37 points.
Shopping & style. Los Cabos 36, Plovdiv 33: Los Cabos leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Los Cabos 28, Plovdiv 78: Plovdiv leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Cabos 12, Plovdiv 42: Plovdiv leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Cabos 58, Plovdiv 44: Los Cabos leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Cabos and Plovdiv.

Your match

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

Los Cabos
47match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Plovdiv
Best match
50match

Wins on prices 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
No recordsunshine a day
26 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Plovdiv in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
44 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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.

Plovdiv 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.

Plovdiv's sunshine is measured 75 km from the centre, at Kurdjali.

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. Plovdiv: 1997-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Plovdiv (1.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos CabosPlovdiv
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaBulgarian
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation11 m172 m
Main airportLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos CabosPlovdiv
City population202,694333,994
People per km²-3,274
Museums within 10 km118
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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.