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A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco
The House of the Blackheads at dusk, Riga
RigaThe House of the Blackheads at dusk

Photos: Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License; Riga by Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Los Cabos or Riga?

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
  • nightlife

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

Choose Riga for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Riga’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, Riga 40: Los Cabos leads by 44 points.
Food & drink. Los Cabos 54, Riga 52: Los Cabos leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Los Cabos 20, Riga 66: Riga leads by 46 points.
Nightlife. Los Cabos 66, Riga 52: Los Cabos leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Cabos 78, Riga 55: Los Cabos leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Los Cabos 42, Riga 60: Riga leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Los Cabos 55, Riga 50: Los Cabos leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Los Cabos 28, Riga 68: Riga leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Los Cabos 36, Riga 45: Riga leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Los Cabos 28, Riga 62: Riga leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Cabos 12, Riga 65: Riga leads by 53 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Cabos 58, Riga 50: Los Cabos leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Cabos and Riga.

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.

Riga
Best match
55match

Wins on live music and the arts 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
26 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Riga in July

24 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
87 mmrain in the month
18 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Los CabosRiga

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. Riga: 1991-2020 normals, Riga (4.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos CabosRiga
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaLatvian
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 m6 m
Main airportLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsRiga International Airport (RIX)9 km from centre93 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days-

By the numbers

MeasureLos CabosRiga
City population202,694588,911
Museums within 10 km112
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.