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A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco
Hanok houses in Bukchon, Seoul
SeoulHanok houses in Bukchon

Photos: Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License; Seoul by 거열 박, Pexels License.

Los Cabos or Seoul?

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

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

Choose Seoul for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Seoul’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, Seoul 18: Los Cabos leads by 66 points.
Food & drink. Los Cabos 54, Seoul 84: Seoul leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Los Cabos 20, Seoul 75: Seoul leads by 55 points.
Nightlife. Los Cabos 66, Seoul 84: Seoul leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Cabos 78, Seoul 75: Los Cabos leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Los Cabos 42, Seoul 77: Seoul leads by 35 points.
Good for families. Los Cabos 55, Seoul 80: Seoul leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Los Cabos 28, Seoul 87: Seoul leads by 59 points.
Shopping & style. Los Cabos 36, Seoul 85: Seoul leads by 49 points.
Affordability. Los Cabos 28, Seoul 50: Seoul leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Cabos 12, Seoul 63: Seoul leads by 51 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Cabos 58, Seoul 75: Seoul leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Cabos and Seoul.

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.

Seoul
Best match
71match

Wins on getting around 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

Seoul in July

29 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
422 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Los CabosSeoul

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. Seoul: 1991-2020 normals, Seoul (2.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos CabosSeoul
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaKorean, Korean Sign Language
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Won (KRW)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7UTC+9
Emergency number911Police 112, ambulance 119, fire 119
Elevation11 m38 m
Main airportLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsIncheon International Airport (ICN)49 km from centre162 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos CabosSeoul
City population202,6949,668,465
People per km²-15,973
Museums within 10 km181
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months2 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.