VacationSelector
A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco
Rabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira, Porto
PortoRabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira

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

Los Cabos or Porto?

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
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Porto for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Porto’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, Porto 40: Los Cabos leads by 44 points.
Food & drink. Los Cabos 54, Porto 70: Porto leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Los Cabos 20, Porto 68: Porto leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Los Cabos 66, Porto 65: Los Cabos leads by 1 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Cabos 78, Porto 64: Los Cabos leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Los Cabos 42, Porto 79: Porto leads by 37 points.
Good for families. Los Cabos 55, Porto 52: Los Cabos leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Los Cabos 28, Porto 66: Porto leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Los Cabos 36, Porto 52: Porto leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Los Cabos 28, Porto 62: Porto leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Cabos 12, Porto 52: Porto leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Cabos 58, Porto 34: Los Cabos leads by 24 points.
0255075100

What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Cabos and Porto.

Your match

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

Los Cabos
47match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Porto
Best match
59match

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
No recordsunshine a day
26 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Porto in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
22 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

0°10°20°30°40°JFMAMJJASOND

Rainfall in the month, mm

050100150200JFMAMJJASOND
Los CabosPorto

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. Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos CabosPorto
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaPortuguese
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation11 m104 m
Main airportLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre134 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos CabosPorto
City population202,694273,476
People per km²-6,606
Museums within 10 km142
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Los Cabos or Porto somewhere new.

Browse every destination

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.