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A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco
The City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia
ValenciaThe City of Arts and Sciences

Photos: Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License; Valencia by Francesco Ungaro, Pexels License.

Los Cabos or Valencia?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • beaches

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

Choose Valencia for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Valencia’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, Valencia 78: Los Cabos leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Los Cabos 54, Valencia 74: Valencia leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Los Cabos 20, Valencia 68: Valencia leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Los Cabos and Valencia are level on 66.
Nature & outdoors. Los Cabos 78, Valencia 60: Los Cabos leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Los Cabos 42, Valencia 70: Valencia leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Los Cabos 55, Valencia 75: Valencia leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Los Cabos 28, Valencia 76: Valencia leads by 48 points.
Shopping & style. Los Cabos 36, Valencia 57: Valencia leads by 21 points.
Affordability. Los Cabos 28, Valencia 57: Valencia leads by 29 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Cabos 12, Valencia 55: Valencia leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Cabos 58, Valencia 42: Los Cabos leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Cabos and Valencia.

Your match

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

Los Cabos
47match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and wellness with your weighting.

Valencia
Best match
65match

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

Valencia in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
7 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Los CabosValencia

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. Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos CabosValencia
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaSpanish
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation11 m15 m
Main airportLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos CabosValencia
City population202,694840,792
People per km²-6,242
Museums within 10 km145
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 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. 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.