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A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco
The Opera House from the water, Sydney
SydneyThe Opera House from the water

Photos: Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License; Sydney by Bernard Spragg, CC0.

Los Cabos or Sydney?

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

  • nightlife
  • prices
  • wellness

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

Choose Sydney for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Sydney’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, Sydney 95: Sydney leads by 11 points.
Food & drink. Los Cabos 54, Sydney 77: Sydney leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Los Cabos 20, Sydney 60: Sydney leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Los Cabos 66, Sydney 60: Los Cabos leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Cabos 78, Sydney 85: Sydney leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Los Cabos 42, Sydney 50: Sydney leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Los Cabos 55, Sydney 75: Sydney leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Los Cabos 28, Sydney 75: Sydney leads by 47 points.
Shopping & style. Los Cabos 36, Sydney 68: Sydney leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Los Cabos 28, Sydney 22: Los Cabos leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Cabos 12, Sydney 73: Sydney leads by 61 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Cabos 58, Sydney 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 Sydney.

Your match

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

Los Cabos
47match

Wins on nightlife and prices with your weighting.

Sydney
Best match
66match

Wins on live music and the arts 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

Sydney in July

18 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
70 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
19 °Csea
10 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.

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. Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos CabosSydney
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaEnglish
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7UTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number911000
Elevation11 m6 m
Main airportLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos CabosSydney
City population202,6945,450,496
People per km²-449
Museums within 10 km138
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months6 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.