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A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco
Gastown, Vancouver
VancouverGastown

Photos: Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License; Vancouver by Xicotencatl, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Los Cabos or Vancouver?

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 Vancouver for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Vancouver’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, Vancouver 42: Los Cabos leads by 42 points.
Food & drink. Los Cabos 54, Vancouver 72: Vancouver leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Los Cabos 20, Vancouver 42: Vancouver leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Los Cabos 66, Vancouver 42: Los Cabos leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Cabos 78, Vancouver 97: Vancouver leads by 19 points.
Day trips. Los Cabos 42, Vancouver 45: Vancouver leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Los Cabos 55, Vancouver 72: Vancouver leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Los Cabos 28, Vancouver 73: Vancouver leads by 45 points.
Shopping & style. Los Cabos 36, Vancouver 55: Vancouver leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Los Cabos 28, Vancouver 27: Los Cabos leads by 1 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Cabos 12, Vancouver 52: Vancouver leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Cabos 58, Vancouver 50: Los Cabos leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Cabos and Vancouver.

Your match

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

Los Cabos
47match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Vancouver
Best match
56match

Wins on getting around and live music and the arts 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

Vancouver in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
42 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Los CabosVancouver

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. Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos CabosVancouver
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaFrench, English
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation11 m2 m
Main airportLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos CabosVancouver
City population202,694662,248
People per km²-5,759
Museums within 10 km126
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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.