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A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco
The Iguazu Falls in the green jungle, Puerto Iguazu
Puerto IguazuThe Iguazu Falls in the green jungle

Photos: Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License; Puerto Iguazu by Muhammed Ballan, Pexels License.

Los Cabos or Puerto Iguazu?

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
  • food and drink

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

Choose Puerto Iguazu for

  • getting around
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Iguazu’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, Puerto Iguazu 5: Los Cabos leads by 79 points.
Food & drink. Los Cabos 54, Puerto Iguazu 28: Los Cabos leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Los Cabos 20, Puerto Iguazu 9: Los Cabos leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Los Cabos 66, Puerto Iguazu 14: Los Cabos leads by 52 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Cabos 78, Puerto Iguazu 95: Puerto Iguazu leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Los Cabos 42, Puerto Iguazu 33: Los Cabos leads by 9 points.
Good for families. Los Cabos and Puerto Iguazu are level on 55.
Getting around. Los Cabos 28, Puerto Iguazu 54: Puerto Iguazu leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Los Cabos 36, Puerto Iguazu 17: Los Cabos leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Los Cabos 28, Puerto Iguazu 48: Puerto Iguazu leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Cabos 12, Puerto Iguazu 7: Los Cabos leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Cabos 58, Puerto Iguazu 34: Los Cabos leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Cabos and Puerto Iguazu.

Your match

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

Los Cabos
Best match
47match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Puerto Iguazu
33match

Wins on getting around 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
No recordsunshine a day
26 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Puerto Iguazu in July

22 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
103 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Los CabosPuerto Iguazu

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. Puerto Iguazu: 1991-2020 normals, Iguazu Aerodrome (17.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos CabosPuerto Iguazu
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaSpanish
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Argentine Peso (ARS)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7UTC-3
Emergency number911117 or 911
Elevation11 m162 m
Main airportLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsCataratas Del Iguazú International Airport (IGR)18 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos CabosPuerto Iguazu
City population202,69454,903
Museums within 10 km10
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. 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.