Aruba vs Los Cabos

Turquoise pool with loungers and fire pits on sand deck, surrounded by curved resort building with white cabanas and green-roofed central structure.

Aruba and Los Cabos, side by side: live travel advisories, our resort catalog's real guest data, and each destination's honest weather picture. Everything you need to break the tie.

By the numbers

Aruba compared with Los Cabos
Aruba	Measure	Los Cabos
Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions (better)	U.S. travel advisory	Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
11 (better)	Resorts in our catalog	4
★ 4.4	Average guest rating	★ 4.6 (better)
$143–$528/night pp	Nightly rates	$117–$878/night pp (better)
2 of 11	Adults-only resorts	3 of 4
Outside the hurricane belt (better)	Hurricane exposure	In the hurricane belt
October–December, and 'rainy' is generous: this is one of the driest islands in the Caribbean	Rainy season	Summer and fall storms can bring heavy rain; the desert setting does not rule out disruption
Year-round; January–March is peak season and priced like it	Sweet spot	December–May for milder temperatures

Advisory levels sync from travel.state.gov; catalog figures reflect the resorts we've researched, not every hotel in the country. A marked row is one we are willing to call; rows without a mark are a matter of taste, or we have no comparable figure for both sides.

On the map

Aruba

Los Cabos

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Aruba and Los Cabos
Measure	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Aruba · high °F	85	85	86	87	88	89	89	90	90	89	87	85
Los Cabos · high °F	78	79	81	85	89	93	93	92	90	88	84	80
Aruba · rain (in)	1.5	0.8	0.4	0.5	0.6	0.7	1.3	1.0	1.8	3.0	3.7	3.2
Los Cabos · rain (in)	0.3	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.9	1.6	4.0	1.0	0.4	0.6

Approximate climate normals for Palm Beach / Eagle Beach and Cabo San Lucas / San José del Cabo: planning guidance, not a forecast. A deeper tint is a higher number, read within its own row.