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When to come to Los Cabos
The best-weather months have the coldest water. The warmest water is hurricane season. Here is the Los Cabos year with real numbers, month by month, and what each one is actually good for.
Los Cabos · Baja California Sur
Los Cabos, told by the people who live here.
Six in ten of us came from somewhere else and stayed. This is the guide we would give a friend who just landed: the places we go back to, and the businesses we put our name on.
The businesses a local would send you to
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Did you know
The first MICHELIN Guide to cover Mexico came out in 2024. Of every restaurant in Baja California Sur, exactly one took a star — and it is here in Los Cabos.
Where locals eat in Los CabosGuía MICHELIN México, 2024
Los Cabos had 15,000 hotel rooms in 2016. It has over 22,000 today, and about four in five are five-star.
Choosing where to stay in Los CabosFideicomiso de Turismo de Los Cabos, 2025
The town grew 47% in ten years — from 238,487 residents to 351,111. Most of the people you meet here arrived after the second number.
Almost nobody in Los Cabos is from Los CabosINEGI, censos de 2010 y 2020
7,529,900 passengers came through Los Cabos International in 2025, which makes it the sixth-busiest airport in Mexico.
When to come to Los CabosGrupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico, 2025
Home & Living is still empty. If you run one of these businesses in Los Cabos, tell the editors — we read every one.
Independent editorial.Businesses are chosen, never bought.
The magazine
Cabo Journal
12 stories. No advertising. Read the Journal →
Photo: Villa Vida
The Feature
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Weddings & Events
What a Los Cabos wedding actually costs
"How much is a wedding at Esperanza?" has no answer, and the vendors quoting you one are guessing. Here is how a Los Cabos wedding budget is actually built: the four levers that move it, the costs that only appear once your guest list is real, and the one question to ask a planner about their own fee.
Experiences
A Cabo itinerary that accounts for the drive
Four days in Los Cabos, arranged so you cross the corridor twice instead of eight times — plus the three beaches you can actually swim, the one evening that is worth planning a day around, and what to cut for three days or add for five.
Recommended businesses
The full networkEvery listing is written by us, after we have used the business or spoken to the people who do. Placement is editorial — it is not for sale.
Weddings & Events
Arianna Ocampo Creative
Twenty years of weddings in Los Cabos, and a planner who leaves part of herself in every one — premium full-service planning, design and production across Mexico.
Local Services
Cabo Cleaning Solutions
They make the cleaning products, to your specification, and deliver them on a fixed weekly route.
Eat & Drink
Cabo Travel Boutique
Private chef and villa concierge — the team that runs the inside of a villa stay.