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A boat in the swell beside El Arco, Los Cabos
Los CabosA boat in the swell beside El Arco
The Limmat from Quaibrücke, Zurich
ZurichThe Limmat from Quaibrücke

Photos: Los Cabos by Jules Clark, Pexels License; Zurich by Daniel Kraft, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Los Cabos or Zurich?

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
  • prices
  • nightlife

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

Choose Zurich for

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Zurich’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, Zurich 45: Los Cabos leads by 39 points.
Food & drink. Los Cabos 54, Zurich 53: Los Cabos leads by 1 points.
Culture & sights. Los Cabos 20, Zurich 58: Zurich leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Los Cabos 66, Zurich 62: Los Cabos leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Cabos 78, Zurich 80: Zurich leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Los Cabos 42, Zurich 84: Zurich leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Los Cabos 55, Zurich 76: Zurich leads by 21 points.
Getting around. Los Cabos 28, Zurich 95: Zurich leads by 67 points.
Shopping & style. Los Cabos 36, Zurich 66: Zurich leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Los Cabos 28, Zurich 3: Los Cabos leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Cabos 12, Zurich 70: Zurich leads by 58 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Cabos and Zurich are level on 58.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Cabos and Zurich.

Your match

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

Los Cabos
47match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Zurich
Best match
63match

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

Zurich in July

24 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
126 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Los CabosZurich

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. Zurich: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (2.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos CabosZurich
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation11 m408 m
Main airportLos Cabos International Airport (SJD)35 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)9 km from centre226 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos CabosZurich
City population202,694440,935
People per km²-5,016
Museums within 10 km163
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. 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.