Although it officially extends between the months of June and November, the hurricane season in Los Cabos is most active from August to October. If it looks like a hurricane will approach the region during your vacation, make sure you comply with what local officials are asking for, which could include evacuating to areas with higher elevations. When planning your Los Cabos getaway during hurricane season, you may want to consider purchasing travel insurance to be protected should your travel plans be disrupted by storms in the region. Hurricane season does see some rain, but mostly in the form of passing rains, so you can continue to have a gust instead of waiting for a storm to pass.
The Eastern Pacific may start generating major hurricanes in June, but the waters south of Cabo San Lucas are still below the 26°C threshold. If you look up when hurricane season is in Cabo San Lucas, you'll see that it's just around the corner, but the reality is that most storms won't come until late summer or early autumn. On June 15, 1958, an unnamed storm, Hurricane Cat 1 passed just south of Cabo San Lucas, but it never made landfall. Hurricane Ignacio (August 23-26, 2000) — Hurricane Ignacio was the one that did not occur in Cabo San Lucas and Los Cabos.
Hurricane Juliette — (September 26, 2000) — The port of Cabo San Lucas was closed from Wednesday, September 26 to October 2.Sandra dissipated well south of Cabo San Lucas, but it was also noteworthy because only a handful of storms form in the Eastern Pacific in November and only three have approached the peninsula. Although La Paz suffered some significant damage, such as an entire log of the stadium that was ripped off and thrown onto the main street, the city was much luckier than Cabo San Lucas and Todos Santos. Olaf made landfall near the city of San Jose del Cabo late Thursday as a Category Two hurricane with maximum winds of 100 miles (160 kilometers) per hour, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.
Heavy rains caused large flooding in low-lying areas and streams in Cabo San Lucas and San Jose del Cabo. Until just 8 hours before making landfall, the National Hurricane Center predicted that Odile would pass through Cabo San Lucas as a Category 2 hurricane and move along the western side of the peninsula. When to Avoid a Los Cabos Vacation This eternal Mexican paradise offers ideal vacation weather from December to May, before the weather gets too hot, but you may want to avoid Cabo during spring break in March and April if you prefer a quieter setting. The storm hit land near San Jose del Cabo late Thursday as a Category 2 hurricane with 100 mph winds, according to the world's hardest hit Mexican Navy base on Socorro Island, about 260 miles south-southwest of Cabo San Lucas, recording more direct impacts from tropical cyclones than anywhere else on land.
It didn't happen, the hurricane came less than 100 miles from us and then went deep into the Sea of Cortez, and completely lost us here in Cabo San Lucas. If you decide to visit Cabo during hurricane season, you will most likely experience restrictions on maritime and water activities due to strong winds and waves. Because it's “rainy season,” this is the best time of year to visit Cabo San Lucas if you want to avoid the crowds.
