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A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Los Cabos or Stockholm?

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
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Stockholm for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Stockholm’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, Stockholm 40: Los Cabos leads by 44 points.
Food & drink. Los Cabos 54, Stockholm 64: Stockholm leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Los Cabos 20, Stockholm 77: Stockholm leads by 57 points.
Nightlife. Los Cabos 66, Stockholm 57: Los Cabos leads by 9 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Cabos 78, Stockholm 72: Los Cabos leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Los Cabos 42, Stockholm 68: Stockholm leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Los Cabos 55, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Los Cabos 28, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 56 points.
Shopping & style. Los Cabos 36, Stockholm 70: Stockholm leads by 34 points.
Affordability. Los Cabos 28, Stockholm 30: Stockholm leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Cabos 12, Stockholm 65: Stockholm leads by 53 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Cabos 58, Stockholm 56: Los Cabos 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 Stockholm.

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.

Stockholm
Best match
64match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around 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

Stockholm in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
65 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
18 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.

Stockholm 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.

Stockholm's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Stockholm Observatoriet.

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. Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos CabosStockholm
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaSwedish
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation11 m22 m
Main airportLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos CabosStockholm
City population202,694984,748
People per km²-5,260
Museums within 10 km1266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.