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A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco
The Warrior on a Horse, Macedonia Square, Skopje
SkopjeThe Warrior on a Horse, Macedonia Square

Photos: Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License; Skopje by George M. Groutas, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Los Cabos or Skopje?

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
  • wellness
  • nightlife

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

Choose Skopje for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Skopje’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, Skopje 6: Los Cabos leads by 78 points.
Food & drink. Los Cabos 54, Skopje 52: Los Cabos leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Los Cabos 20, Skopje 56: Skopje leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Los Cabos 66, Skopje 42: Los Cabos leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Cabos 78, Skopje 70: Los Cabos leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Los Cabos 42, Skopje 56: Skopje leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Los Cabos 55, Skopje 35: Los Cabos leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Los Cabos 28, Skopje 45: Skopje leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Los Cabos 36, Skopje 40: Skopje leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Los Cabos 28, Skopje 80: Skopje leads by 52 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Cabos 12, Skopje 38: Skopje leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Cabos 58, Skopje 27: Los Cabos leads by 31 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Cabos and Skopje.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Los Cabos
47match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Skopje
46match

Wins on prices 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

Skopje in July

32 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
31 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
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.

Skopje 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.

Skopje's sunshine is measured 68 km from the centre, at Stip.

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. Skopje: 1991-2020 (sunshine 1961-1990) normals, Skopje-Petrovec (18.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos CabosSkopje
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaAlbanian, Macedonian
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Denar (MKD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation11 m251 m
Main airportLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsSkopje International Airport (SKP)16 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos CabosSkopje
City population202,694422,540
People per km²-739
Museums within 10 km117
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.