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A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco
The red cable car above Wellington, Wellington
WellingtonThe red cable car above Wellington

Photos: Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License; Wellington by lumoplank, CC0.

Los Cabos or Wellington?

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
  • wellness
  • nightlife

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

Choose Wellington for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Wellington’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, Wellington 33: Los Cabos leads by 51 points.
Food & drink. Los Cabos 54, Wellington 62: Wellington leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Los Cabos 20, Wellington 44: Wellington leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Los Cabos 66, Wellington 45: Los Cabos leads by 21 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Cabos and Wellington are level on 78.
Day trips. Los Cabos 42, Wellington 40: Los Cabos leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Los Cabos 55, Wellington 62: Wellington leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Los Cabos 28, Wellington 68: Wellington leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Los Cabos 36, Wellington 42: Wellington leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Los Cabos 28, Wellington 33: Wellington leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Cabos 12, Wellington 56: Wellington leads by 44 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Cabos 58, Wellington 30: Los Cabos leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Cabos and Wellington.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Los Cabos
47match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Wellington
49match

Wins on live music and the arts 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

Wellington in July

12 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
111 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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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.

Wellington's sunshine is measured 47 km from the centre, at Paraparaumu Aerodrome.

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. Wellington: 1961-1990 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Wellington Aerodrome Aws (5.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos CabosWellington
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaEnglish, New Zealand Sign Language, Māori
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)New Zealand Dollar (NZD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7UTC+12, UTC+13 in summer
Emergency number911111
Elevation11 m0 m
Main airportLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsWellington International Airport (WLG)5 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos CabosWellington
City population202,694216,200
People per km²-487
Museums within 10 km112
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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. 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.