Aruba vs Los Cabos

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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.

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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
9 (better)	Resorts in our catalog	1
★ 4.4	Average guest rating	★ 4.6 (better)
$143–$332/night pp	Nightly rates	–
2 of 9	Adults-only resorts	1 of 1
Outside the hurricane belt (better)	Hurricane exposure	Low hurricane risk
October–December, and 'rainy' is generous: this is one of the driest islands in the Caribbean	Rainy season	Essentially just September, and briefly
Year-round; January–March is peak season and priced like it	Sweet spot	October–June; whales December–April
~4–4.5h from the US East Coast	Flight time	~2–3h from the US West Coast

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

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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.