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A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco
The old town below the fortress, Salzburg
SalzburgThe old town below the fortress

Photos: Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License; Salzburg by Leonhard Niederwimmer, Pexels License.

Los Cabos or Salzburg?

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 Salzburg for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Salzburg’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, Salzburg 35: Los Cabos leads by 49 points.
Food & drink. Los Cabos 54, Salzburg 45: Los Cabos leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Los Cabos 20, Salzburg 72: Salzburg leads by 52 points.
Nightlife. Los Cabos 66, Salzburg 25: Los Cabos leads by 41 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Cabos 78, Salzburg 86: Salzburg leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Los Cabos 42, Salzburg 80: Salzburg leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Los Cabos 55, Salzburg 65: Salzburg leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Los Cabos 28, Salzburg 72: Salzburg leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Los Cabos 36, Salzburg 48: Salzburg leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Los Cabos 28, Salzburg 32: Salzburg leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Cabos 12, Salzburg 80: Salzburg leads by 68 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Cabos 58, Salzburg 55: Los Cabos leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Cabos and Salzburg.

Your match

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

Los Cabos
47match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Salzburg
Best match
58match

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
No recordsunshine a day
26 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Salzburg in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
159 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Los CabosSalzburg

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. Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos CabosSalzburg
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation11 m424 m
Main airportLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos CabosSalzburg
City population202,694155,021
People per km²-2,360
Museums within 10 km138
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
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.