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A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco
Angkor Wat beyond the palms of the causeway, Siem Reap
Siem ReapAngkor Wat beyond the palms of the causeway

Photos: Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License; Siem Reap by allPhoto Bangkok, Pexels License.

Los Cabos or Siem Reap?

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 Siem Reap for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Siem Reap’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, Siem Reap 5: Los Cabos leads by 79 points.
Food & drink. Los Cabos 54, Siem Reap 45: Los Cabos leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Los Cabos 20, Siem Reap 88: Siem Reap leads by 68 points.
Nightlife. Los Cabos 66, Siem Reap 42: Los Cabos leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Cabos 78, Siem Reap 40: Los Cabos leads by 38 points.
Day trips. Los Cabos 42, Siem Reap 55: Siem Reap leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Los Cabos 55, Siem Reap 35: Los Cabos leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Los Cabos 28, Siem Reap 30: Siem Reap leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Los Cabos 36, Siem Reap 38: Siem Reap leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Los Cabos 28, Siem Reap 88: Siem Reap leads by 60 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Cabos 12, Siem Reap 32: Siem Reap leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Cabos 58, Siem Reap 60: Siem Reap 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 Siem Reap.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Los Cabos
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Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Siem Reap
47match

Wins on culture and sights and prices 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

Siem Reap in July

30 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
197 mmrain in the month
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Los CabosSiem Reap

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.

Siem Reap 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. Siem Reap: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureLos CabosSiem Reap
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaKhmer
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Riel (KHR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzACG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7UTC+7
Emergency number911Police 117, ambulance 119, fire 118
Elevation11 m18 m
Main airportLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsSiem Reap-Angkor International Airport (SAI)39 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos CabosSiem Reap
City population202,694147,866
Museums within 10 km16
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. 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.