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A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco
Santa Claus Village in winter, Rovaniemi
RovaniemiSanta Claus Village in winter

Photos: Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License; Rovaniemi by Moskenes, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Los Cabos or Rovaniemi?

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
  • day trips

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

Choose Rovaniemi for

  • families
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Rovaniemi’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, Rovaniemi 10: Los Cabos leads by 74 points.
Food & drink. Los Cabos 54, Rovaniemi 25: Los Cabos leads by 29 points.
Culture & sights. Los Cabos 20, Rovaniemi 22: Rovaniemi leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Los Cabos 66, Rovaniemi 15: Los Cabos leads by 51 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Cabos and Rovaniemi are level on 78.
Day trips. Los Cabos 42, Rovaniemi 8: Los Cabos leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Los Cabos 55, Rovaniemi 72: Rovaniemi leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Los Cabos 28, Rovaniemi 36: Rovaniemi leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Los Cabos 36, Rovaniemi 18: Los Cabos leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Los Cabos 28, Rovaniemi 18: Los Cabos leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Cabos 12, Rovaniemi 22: Rovaniemi leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Cabos 58, Rovaniemi 60: Rovaniemi leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Cabos and Rovaniemi.

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.

Rovaniemi
32match

Wins on families 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
26 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Rovaniemi in July

21 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
78 mmrain in the month
No seasea
22 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.

Rovaniemi 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.

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. Rovaniemi: 2008-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rovaniemi Rautatieasema / Kuusela (0.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos CabosRovaniemi
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaFinnish, Swedish
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 m88 m
Main airportLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsRovaniemi Airport (RVN)8 km from centre44 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos CabosRovaniemi
City population202,69465,329
People per km²-9
Museums within 10 km16
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.