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A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco
The Assembly Hall on Temple Square, Salt Lake City
Salt Lake CityThe Assembly Hall on Temple Square

Photos: Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License; Salt Lake City by hakkun, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Los Cabos or Salt Lake City?

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
  • wellness

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

Choose Salt Lake City for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Salt Lake City’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, Salt Lake City 12: Los Cabos leads by 72 points.
Food & drink. Los Cabos 54, Salt Lake City 40: Los Cabos leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Los Cabos 20, Salt Lake City 42: Salt Lake City leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Los Cabos 66, Salt Lake City 30: Los Cabos leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Cabos 78, Salt Lake City 90: Salt Lake City leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Los Cabos 42, Salt Lake City 34: Los Cabos leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Los Cabos 55, Salt Lake City 72: Salt Lake City leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Los Cabos 28, Salt Lake City 42: Salt Lake City leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Los Cabos and Salt Lake City are level on 36.
Affordability. Los Cabos 28, Salt Lake City 40: Salt Lake City leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Cabos 12, Salt Lake City 55: Salt Lake City leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Cabos 58, Salt Lake City 38: Los Cabos leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Cabos and Salt Lake City.

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.

Salt Lake City
44match

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

Salt Lake City in July

34 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
No seasea
15 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.

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. Salt Lake City: 1991-2020 normals, Salt Lake City International Airport (7.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos CabosSalt Lake City
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya-
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation11 m1,288 m
Main airportLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)9 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos CabosSalt Lake City
City population202,694199,723
People per km²-690
Museums within 10 km112
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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.