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A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco
Ushuaia below snow-capped mountains, Ushuaia
UshuaiaUshuaia below snow-capped mountains

Photos: Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License; Ushuaia by Jan Tang, Pexels License.

Los Cabos or Ushuaia?

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
  • wellness

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

Choose Ushuaia for

  • getting around
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Ushuaia’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, Ushuaia 3: Los Cabos leads by 81 points.
Food & drink. Los Cabos 54, Ushuaia 40: Los Cabos leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Los Cabos 20, Ushuaia 22: Ushuaia leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Los Cabos 66, Ushuaia 18: Los Cabos leads by 48 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Cabos 78, Ushuaia 88: Ushuaia leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Los Cabos 42, Ushuaia 14: Los Cabos leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Los Cabos 55, Ushuaia 40: Los Cabos leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Los Cabos 28, Ushuaia 45: Ushuaia leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Los Cabos 36, Ushuaia 22: Los Cabos leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Los Cabos 28, Ushuaia 42: Ushuaia leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Cabos 12, Ushuaia 10: Los Cabos leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Cabos 58, Ushuaia 26: Los Cabos leads by 32 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Cabos and Ushuaia.

Your match

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

Los Cabos
Best match
47match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Ushuaia
31match

Wins on getting around and prices 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

Ushuaia in July

4 °Cdaytime high
0 °Cnight-time low
36 mmrain in the month
2 hsunshine a day
No seasea
8 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Los CabosUshuaia

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. Ushuaia: 1991-2020 normals, Ushuaia Aerodrome (1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos CabosUshuaia
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaSpanish
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Argentine Peso (ARS)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7UTC-3
Emergency number911117 or 911
Elevation11 m23 m
Main airportLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsUshuaia - Malvinas Argentinas International Airport (USH)4 km from centre9 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos CabosUshuaia
City population202,69482,615
People per km²-3,592
Museums within 10 km15
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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.