Destinations · Head-to-head
Los Cabos vs Turkey
Los Cabos and Turkey, 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.
Los Cabos guide · Turkey guide · How we score
By the numbers
| Los Cabos | Measure | Turkey |
|---|---|---|
| Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution | U.S. travel advisory | Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution |
| 1 | Resorts in our catalog | 17 (better) |
| ★ 4.6 (better) | Average guest rating | ★ 4.6 |
| – | Nightly rates | $1–$833/night pp |
| 1 of 1 | Adults-only resorts | 0 of 17 |
| Low hurricane risk | Hurricane exposure | No hurricane season (better) |
| Essentially just September, and briefly | Rainy season | November–February (impressively wet winters, irrelevant to summer trips) |
| October–June; whales December–April | Sweet spot | May–June and September–October; July–August regularly tops 90°F |
| ~2–3h from the US West Coast | Flight time | ~11–13h from the US East Coast (one stop) |
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
Los Cabos
Turkey
Weather, month by month
| Measure | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Cabos · high °F | 78 | 79 | 81 | 85 | 89 | 93 | 93 | 92 | 90 | 88 | 84 | 80 |
| Turkey · high °F | 59 | 60 | 64 | 70 | 78 | 86 | 93 | 93 | 87 | 79 | 69 | 61 |
| 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 |
| Turkey · rain (in) | 9.2 | 6.3 | 3.8 | 1.8 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 2.6 | 7.1 | 10.2 |
Approximate climate normals for Cabo San Lucas / San José del Cabo and Antalya coast: planning guidance, not a forecast. A deeper tint is a higher number, read within its own row.
Where you'd actually stay
Chains here: Le Blanc Spa Resorts / Palace Resorts
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