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A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco
Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo
TokyoShibuya Crossing

Photos: Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License; Tokyo by Benh LIEU SONG, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Los Cabos or Tokyo?

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 Tokyo for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Tokyo’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, Tokyo 40: Los Cabos leads by 44 points.
Food & drink. Los Cabos 54, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 44 points.
Culture & sights. Los Cabos 20, Tokyo 84: Tokyo leads by 64 points.
Nightlife. Los Cabos 66, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Cabos 78, Tokyo 68: Los Cabos leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Los Cabos 42, Tokyo 85: Tokyo leads by 43 points.
Good for families. Los Cabos 55, Tokyo 95: Tokyo leads by 40 points.
Getting around. Los Cabos 28, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 70 points.
Shopping & style. Los Cabos 36, Tokyo 99: Tokyo leads by 63 points.
Affordability. Los Cabos 28, Tokyo 48: Tokyo leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Cabos 12, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 74 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Cabos 58, Tokyo 78: Tokyo leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Cabos and Tokyo.

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.

Tokyo
Best match
80match

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

Tokyo in July

30 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
157 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
23 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Los CabosTokyo

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. Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos CabosTokyo
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaJapanese
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7UTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation11 m6 m
Main airportLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos CabosTokyo
City population202,69414,264,798
People per km²-6,501
Museums within 10 km1192
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 months

Where else could you go?

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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.