What’s On in Los Cabos in May

If you lone visited Baja California Sur successful May, you would deliberation it was obsessed with jazz:  respective of the state’s foremost tourism destinations — including La Paz, San José del Cabo, and Todos Santos — diagnostic performance-based jazz events during the month. 

The juncture for these events is the International Jazz Festival to travel the Uneaco-sponsored International Jazz Day. Beyond listening enjoyment, the UN bureau proclaimed International Jazz Day successful 2011 to unify radical worldwide. Neither La Paz nor Todos Santos is technically successful Los Cabos— they’re successful the municipality of La Paz. 

However, 1 of the joys of visiting Los Cabos is accessibility to aggregate destinations wrong casual driving distance; 1 hr to Todos Santos from Cabo San Lucas, 2 hours to La Paz. 

Baja Jazz 2025 astatine El Mirador

It’s hard to ideate a much laid-back mounting than El Mirador Ocean View Restaurant successful Todos Santos, tract of Baja Jazz 2025. Monterrey autochthonal Tito Rodríguez headlines the event, joined by respective different performers, including Soul Sisters, Sonny Step and the Blessing Trio. 

Dates: May 1
Location: El Mirador, Camino a El Mirador Restaurant, Rafael Pedrajo 1, Todos Santos
Cost: 500 pesos

Drink-Oh de Mayo astatine El Squid Roe

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Cinco de Mayo is much fashionable successful the United States than successful Mexico. But this solemnisation of Mexico’s victory implicit the French successful the 1862 Battle of Puebla is used, similar virtually everything other successful Cabo San Lucas, arsenic an excuse to party. Hence Drink-Oh de Mayo astatine El Squid Roe, a boozy DJ-enhanced lawsuit astatine 1 of the Land’s End city’s signature bars that arrives 3 days early.

Dates: May 2

Location: El Squid Roe, Blvd. Lázaro Cárdenas 1112, Cabo San Lucas

Cost: $103 for a 3-hour unfastened bar

La Paz celebrates its 490th anniversary

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La Paz, the superior of Baja California Sur, dates its founding arsenic a metropolis to May 3, 1535, the time Hernán Cortés and his unit archetypal came ashore connected the peninsula. Every year, the city’s Fiestas de Fundacion honor this momentous juncture successful determination history with a reenactment and galore different events, including the crowning of Queen Calafia. These festivities are mostly centered on the Malecón boardwalk.

Dates: May 3
Location: Paseo Álvaro Obregón, Zona Centro, La Paz
Cost: Free admission

Los Cabos Cortés Open 2025

Swimming conditions don’t get immoderate amended than successful the h2o disconnected Playa Palmilla, which explains wherefore this cove is the tract of the swimming information of the yearly Ironman 70.3 fractional triathlon successful October and the Cortés Open. The second features 4 antithetic contention distances — 1.3, 3, 5 and 7 kilometers — and welcomes swimmers of each ages and accomplishment levels. 

Dates: May 3
Location: Playa Palmilla, Carretera Transpeninsular Km 27.5, Los Cabos Tourist Corridor
Cost: 1,250 to 2,400 pesos, depending connected contention distance

Festival de Jazz La Paz

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The La Paz-based solemnisation of International Jazz Day welcomes Victor Patrón, Douglas Webb, Sonia Steves and section performers for escaped concerts connected the city’s scenic seaside Malecón.

Dates: May 4
Location: Malecón successful La Paz
Cost: Free admission

Viva El Gonzo

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The sanction of boutique San José del Cabo edifice El Ganzo is simply a portmanteau that combines gonzo, the outrageous creation benignant pioneered by writer Hunter S. Thompson, and “ganso,” the Spanish connection for goose. This three-day euphony festival embraces the gonzo constituent and features Goose, The War connected Drugs, Tycho, Dawes and much than a twelve different artists and performers.

Dates: May 8 – 10
Location: Hotel El Ganzo, Boulevard Tiburon s/n La Playa, San José del Cabo
Cost: US $188 for wide admittance tickets

Día de las Madres

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The day is the main quality betwixt Mother’s Day successful the U.S. and Mexico. In the U.S., mothers are honored connected the 2nd Sunday successful May. In Mexico, the day remains the aforesaid each year: May 10. However, arsenic elsewhere, it’s an juncture to observe moms for each they do, with galore restaurants offering peculiar deals and menus. The Monumento a las Madres successful Miraflores, a statue built successful 1927 astatine the behest of section children, was 1 of the archetypal of its benignant successful Mexico.

Dates: May 10
Location: Celebrated passim Los Cabos
Cost: Check idiosyncratic restaurants for deals and discounts

11th San José Jazz Weekend

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Originally held successful February to coincide with Valentine’s Day, post-pandemic, this highly anticipated escaped section event is present a May fixture. However, arsenic before, the festival dedicated to the New Orleans-created, world-embraced philharmonic benignant draws 5,000 oregon much spectators to the Plaza del Pescador successful San José del Cabo. Featured artists this twelvemonth see the Los Cabos Big Band, the David Cantoni Quinteto, and T’orus.

Dates: May 23 – 24
Location: Plaza del Pescador, Zona Hotelera, San José del Cabo
Cost: Free admission

8th Annual Paellas Festival 

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Organized by the Los Cabos Rotary Club and Los Cabos Hotel Association to rise wealth for section acquisition programs, this lawsuit besides notably pleases section palates courtesy of paella entries from respective of the area’s apical edifice chefs. 

Dates: May 24
Location: Hilton Los Cabos Beach & Golf Resort, Carretera Transpeninsular Km 19.5, Los Cabos Tourist Corridor
Cost: 1,300 pesos

Maki Fest Los Cabos 2025

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The crockery of prime for this culinary contention pitting apical chefs against 1 different is maki sushi rolls. Fifteen of the champion section chefs volition vie for the apical prize, with the existent winners being those who amusement up to bash the sampling. Live euphony is featured, including a show from American saxophonist Scott Page.

Date: May 31
Location: Petunia’s Venue, Vía de Carlos L 601, Carretera Transpeninsular Km 3.7, Cabo San Lucas
Cost: From 1,567 pesos

Chris Sands is the Cabo San Lucas section adept for the USA Today question website 10 Best, writer of Fodor’s Los Cabos question guidebook and a contributor to galore websites and publications, including Tasting Table, Marriott Bonvoy Traveler, Forbes Travel Guide, Porthole Cruise, Cabo Living and Mexico News Daily. His specialty is travel-related contented and manner features focused connected food, vino and golf.