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A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco
Victoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter, Victoria Falls
Victoria FallsVictoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter

Photos: Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License; Victoria Falls by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Los Cabos or Victoria Falls?

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
  • food and drink

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

Choose Victoria Falls for

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Victoria Falls’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, Victoria Falls 7: Los Cabos leads by 77 points.
Food & drink. Los Cabos 54, Victoria Falls 24: Los Cabos leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Los Cabos 20, Victoria Falls 12: Los Cabos leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Los Cabos 66, Victoria Falls 8: Los Cabos leads by 58 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Cabos 78, Victoria Falls 94: Victoria Falls leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Los Cabos 42, Victoria Falls 22: Los Cabos leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Los Cabos 55, Victoria Falls 38: Los Cabos leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Los Cabos 28, Victoria Falls 45: Victoria Falls leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Los Cabos 36, Victoria Falls 18: Los Cabos leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Los Cabos 28, Victoria Falls 32: Victoria Falls leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Cabos 12, Victoria Falls 10: Los Cabos leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Cabos 58, Victoria Falls 34: Los Cabos leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Cabos and Victoria Falls.

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.

Victoria Falls
29match

Wins on getting around and nature and the outdoors 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
26 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Victoria Falls in July

26 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Los CabosVictoria Falls

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. Victoria Falls: 1991-2020 normals, Livingstone (13.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos CabosVictoria Falls
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaEnglish, Xhosa, Ndau, Venda, Chewa, Khoisan, Kalanga, Shona, Tonga, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Northern Ndebele, Nambya, Zimbabwe Sign Language, Barwe
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Zimbabwe Gold (ZWG)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7UTC+2
Emergency number911999
Elevation11 m961 m
Main airportLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsVictoria Falls International Airport (VFA)18 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos CabosVictoria Falls
City population202,69433,060
Museums within 10 km12
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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.