Costa del Sol vs Los Cabos

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Costa del Sol 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

Costa del Sol compared with Los Cabos
Costa del Sol	Measure	Los Cabos
Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution	U.S. travel advisory	Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
6 (better)	Resorts in our catalog	3
★ 4.4	Average guest rating	★ 4.6 (better)
$67–$526/night pp (better)	Nightly rates	$117–$878/night pp
0 of 6	Adults-only resorts	2 of 3
No hurricane season (better)	Hurricane exposure	Low hurricane risk
November–March	Rainy season	Essentially just September, and briefly
June and September; July–August is hottest and busiest	Sweet spot	October–June; whales December–April
Málaga (AGP), most resorts 20–60 min west along the coast	Airport	Los Cabos (SJD), Corridor resorts 20–45 min
Sun with Andalusia attached; day trips to Granada, Seville and Ronda	Best for	Adults-leaning luxury, golf, whale season, West Coast escapes

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

Costa del Sol

Los Cabos

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Costa del Sol and Los Cabos
Measure	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Costa del Sol · high °F	63	64	67	70	75	81	86	86	82	75	68	64
Los Cabos · high °F	78	79	81	85	89	93	93	92	90	88	84	80
Costa del Sol · rain (in)	2.7	2.3	1.9	1.6	0.8	0.2	0.0	0.2	0.9	2.2	3.7	3.9
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 Málaga 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.