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San José del Cabo, 
Mexico
158,693 people lived in San José del Cabo in 2025. It is the 3815th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 74th largest in Mexico.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area San José del Cabo governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How San José del Cabo grew
Count 10 people in San José del Cabo in 2010 and the same count gives 22.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 368,380 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2035 and 2040. The UN first counts it as a city in 2010, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
San José del Cabo through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in San José del Cabo in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Mexico · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: San José del Cabo is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Mexico in 2025, 186 in all, led by Mexico City, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, San José del Cabo covered 33 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.6 km² of it. That is 48 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 2010, its built-up land has grown by 49%, and its people are 2.3 times as many.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in Mexico
Its share of Mexico
Of every 1,000 people in Mexico in 2025, 1 lived in San José del Cabo, which is 158,693 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Mexico, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have San José del Cabo's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 3741 N'dalatando Angola161,700
- 3768 Kahama Tanzania160,713
- 3796 Masaka Uganda159,564
- 3800 Ash Shajarah Yemen159,506
- 3815 San José del Cabo158,693
- 3817 Ambatolahy II Madagascar158,588
- 3823 Shufune Ethiopia158,225
- 3825 Musumba Democratic Republic of the Congo158,159
- 3846 ad-Damer Sudan157,497
In Mexico, 2025
- 2065 Heroica Nogales281,580
- 2140 Zacatecas271,829
- 2267 Cabo San Lucas257,436
- 2419 Monclova242,237
- 3815 San José del Cabo158,693
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for San José del Cabo are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2010 to 2025, then projection to 2050. Projected years are drawn hatched, and the UN publishes no range of uncertainty for a city. What a city means here, how the UN measures one, and why that number can differ from the one San José del Cabo publishes about itself: how the figures here are put together.
Sources: UN WUP 2025 · Natural Earth · flag-icons. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries