| San José del Cabo | |
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San José del Cabo
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| Coordinates: | |
| Country | Mexico |
| State | Baja California Sur |
| Municipality | Los Cabos |
| Elevation | 148 ft (45 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 69,788 |
The city of San José del Cabo is located in Baja California Sur, Mexico and is the seat of the municipality of Los Cabos at the south end of the Baja California peninsula. In the 2010 census it had a population of 69,788. Together with neighboring Cabo San Lucas it forms a major tourist destination for travelers, particularly from the United States of America. The two cities are served by Los Cabos International Airport.
The mission San José del Cabo was founded in 1730; the nearby Río San José was useful to the Spanish as a source of fresh water for galleons traveling to and from the Philippines.[1]
San José del Cabo is one of two places where the rare and possibly extinct rice rat Oryzomys peninsulae has been found.[2]
San José del Cabo, like almost all of Baja California, has an arid climate (Köppen BWh) although it does receive more rainfall than most areas further north due to tropical cyclones occasionally coming in from the south and bringing very heavy falls such as 340 millimetres (13.4 in) on the first of September 1998 and 316 millimetres (12.4 in) on 3 November 1993. Overall, however. rainfall is some of the most erratic anywhere in the world due to this influence, and many years pass by without significant falls at all.
| Climate data for San José del Cabo | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 33 (91) |
35 (95) |
34 (93) |
38 (100) |
39 (102) |
39 (102) |
39 (102) |
39 (102) |
39 (102) |
39 (102) |
40 (104) |
39 (102) |
40 (104) |
| Average high °C (°F) | 25.0 (77.0) |
25.5 (77.9) |
26.8 (80.2) |
28.5 (83.3) |
30.2 (86.4) |
32.0 (89.6) |
33.2 (91.8) |
33.2 (91.8) |
32.9 (91.2) |
31.8 (89.2) |
29.1 (84.4) |
26.1 (79.0) |
29.53 (85.15) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 11.5 (52.7) |
11.4 (52.5) |
12.6 (54.7) |
14.5 (58.1) |
17.0 (62.6) |
20.4 (68.7) |
23.1 (73.6) |
23.6 (74.5) |
22.9 (73.2) |
20.1 (68.2) |
16.2 (61.2) |
13.1 (55.6) |
17.20 (62.96) |
| Record low °C (°F) | 1.5 (34.7) |
5.0 (41.0) |
7.0 (44.6) |
7.0 (44.6) |
11.0 (51.8) |
11.0 (51.8) |
15.0 (59.0) |
13.0 (55.4) |
18.0 (64.4) |
11.0 (51.8) |
9.5 (49.1) |
6.0 (42.8) |
1.5 (34.7) |
| Rainfall mm (inches) | 14.6 (0.575) |
3.2 (0.126) |
0.8 (0.031) |
0.5 (0.02) |
0.5 (0.02) |
1.3 (0.051) |
24.3 (0.957) |
66.8 (2.63) |
100.7 (3.965) |
40.6 (1.598) |
43.9 (1.728) |
12.5 (0.492) |
309.7 (12.193) |
| Avg. rainy days | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 1.7 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 2.0 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 16 |
| Source: Servicio Meteorológico National[3] | |||||||||||||
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