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A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco
Rice terraces and palms at Tegallalang, Ubud
UbudRice terraces and palms at Tegallalang

Photos: Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License; Ubud by Pinterpandai, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Los Cabos or Ubud?

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
  • beaches
  • getting around

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

Choose Ubud for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Ubud’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, Ubud 38: Los Cabos leads by 46 points.
Food & drink. Los Cabos 54, Ubud 60: Ubud leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Los Cabos 20, Ubud 58: Ubud leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Los Cabos 66, Ubud 15: Los Cabos leads by 51 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Cabos 78, Ubud 80: Ubud leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Los Cabos 42, Ubud 72: Ubud leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Los Cabos 55, Ubud 48: Los Cabos leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Los Cabos 28, Ubud 10: Los Cabos leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Los Cabos 36, Ubud 52: Ubud leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Los Cabos 28, Ubud 80: Ubud leads by 52 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Cabos 12, Ubud 47: Ubud leads by 35 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Cabos 58, Ubud 96: Ubud leads by 38 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Cabos and Ubud.

Your match

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

Los Cabos
47match

Wins on nightlife and beaches with your weighting.

Ubud
Best match
55match

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

Ubud in July

29 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
110 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
27 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Los CabosUbud

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.

Ubud's temperatures are measured 29 km from the centre, at Denpasar / Ngurah-Rai.

Ubud's station stands 209 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Ubud 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.

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. Ubud: 1991-2020 normals, Denpasar / Ngurah-Rai (29 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos CabosUbud
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaIndonesian
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7UTC+8
Emergency number911112
Elevation11 m210 m
Main airportLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsDenpasar I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport (DPS)29 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days-

By the numbers

MeasureLos CabosUbud
City population202,694-
Museums within 10 km114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 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.