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A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco
The city from Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavik
ReykjavikThe city from Hallgrímskirkja

Photos: Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License; Reykjavik by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License.

Los Cabos or Reykjavik?

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
  • prices
  • nightlife

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

Choose Reykjavik for

  • live music and the arts
  • wellness
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Reykjavik’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, Reykjavik 12: Los Cabos leads by 72 points.
Food & drink. Los Cabos 54, Reykjavik 42: Los Cabos leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Los Cabos 20, Reykjavik 25: Reykjavik leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Los Cabos 66, Reykjavik 45: Los Cabos leads by 21 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Cabos 78, Reykjavik 92: Reykjavik leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Los Cabos 42, Reykjavik 35: Los Cabos leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Los Cabos and Reykjavik are level on 55.
Getting around. Los Cabos 28, Reykjavik 55: Reykjavik leads by 27 points.
Shopping & style. Los Cabos 36, Reykjavik 25: Los Cabos leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Los Cabos 28, Reykjavik 6: Los Cabos leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Cabos 12, Reykjavik 45: Reykjavik leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Cabos 58, Reykjavik 88: Reykjavik leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Cabos and Reykjavik.

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 prices with your weighting.

Reykjavik
44match

Wins on live music and the arts and wellness 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

Reykjavik in July

15 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
50 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
11 °Csea
20 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Los CabosReykjavik

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. Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos CabosReykjavik
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaIcelandic
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Iceland Krona (ISK)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7UTC
Emergency number911112
Elevation11 m8 m
Main airportLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos CabosReykjavik
City population202,694138,772
People per km²-569
Museums within 10 km123
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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.