If you only visited Baja California on May, you would think that it was obsessed with jazz: several of the main tourist destinations in the state – including PAZ, San José del Cabo and Todos Santos – present performance -based jazz events during the month.
The opportunity for these events is the International Jazz Festival to support International Jazz Day sponsored by Unaco. Beyond listening pleasure, the United Nations Agency Proclaimed International Jazz Day in 2011 To unify people around the world. Neither the PAZ nor Todos Santos are technically in Los Cabos – they are in the municipality of La Paz.
However, one of the joys of visiting Los Cabos is accessibility to several destinations at a distance of easy driving; An hour at Todos Santos de Cabo San Lucas, two o’clock at La Paz.
Low jazz 2025 from point of view
It is difficult to imagine a more relaxed setting than the El Mirador Ocean View restaurant in Todos Santos, Baja Jazz 2025 site. Originally from Monterrey Tito Rodríguez The titles of the event, joined by several other performers, including Soul Sisters, Sonny Step and The Injury Trio.
Dates: May 1st
Location: The point of view, on the way to the restaurant El Mirador, Rafael Pedrajo 1, All holy
Cost: 500 pesos
Drink-Oh from Mayo to El Squid Roe
Cinco de Mayo is more popular in the United States than in Mexico. But this celebration of Mexico Victory over the French in the battle of Puebla in 1862 is used, like almost the rest of Cabo San Lucas, as an excuse to party. Hence Drink-Oh from Mayo to El Squid Roe, an event improved by DJ in one of the signing bars of the city on the ground which arrives three days earlier.
Dates: May 2
Location: El Squid Roe, Blvd. Lázaro Cárdenas 1112, Cabo San Lucas
Cost: $ 103 for a 3 -hour open bar
La Paz celebrates its 490th anniversary
La Paz, the capital of Baja California on, date of its foundation as a city until May 3, 1535, the day when Hernán Cortés and its crew came for the first time on the peninsula. Each year, the city of the city of the city Honor this capital occasion of regional history with a reconstruction and many other events, including the coronation of Queen Calafia. These festivities are mainly centered along the Malecón promenade.
Dates: May 3
Location: Paseo Álvaro Obregón, Central Zone, La Paz
Cost: FREE ENTRANCE
LOS CABOS CORTES Open 2025
The swimming conditions are not better than in water off Playa Palmilla, which explains why this cove is the site of the swimming part of the Ironman 70.3 annual triathlon in October and open corties. The latter presents four different racing distances – 1.3, 3, 5 and 7 kilometers – and welcomes swimmers of all ages and skill levels.
Dates: May 3
Location: Palmilla Playa, TranspeninsUlar Road KM 27.5, Los Cabos Tourist Corridor
Cost: 1,250 to 2,400 pesosDepending on the race distance
Paz jazz festival
THE Paz -based celebration of International Jazz Day Welcomes Victor Patrón, Douglas Webb, Sonia Steves and local artists for free concerts on the edge of the picturesque Malecón.
Dates: May 4
Location: Malecon at La Paz
Cost: FREE ENTRANCE
Long live the gonzo
The name of the San José del Cabo Hotel El Ganzo store is a portmanteau that combines Gonzo, the scandalous artistic style launched by the writer Hunter S. Thompson and “Ganso”, the Spanish word for the goose. This Three -day music festival Kiss the Gonzo element and presents Goose, the war on drugs, Tycho, Dawes and more than a dozen other artists and artists.
Dates: May 8 to 10
Location: El Ganzo Hotel, boulevard Tiburon s / n La Beach, San José del Cabo
Cost: US $ 188 for general admission tickets
Mother’s Day
The date is the main difference between Mother’s Day in the United States and Mexico. In the United States, mothers are honored on the second Sunday in May. In Mexico, the date remains the same each year: May 10. However, as elsewhere, it is an opportunity to celebrate mothers for everything they do, with many restaurants offering special offers and menus. The monumento in Las Madres in Miraflores, a statue built in 1927 at the request of local children, was one of the first of its kind in Mexico.
Dates: May 10
Location: Celebrated through Los Cabos
Cost: Check individual restaurants for offers and discounts
11th San José Jazz Weekend
Originally in February to coincide with Valentine’s Day, post-Pandemic, this Local free event highly anticipated is now a May light. However, as before, the festival dedicated to the musical style hed back in New Orleans and ie into the world attracts 5,000 spectators or more to the Plaza del Pescador in San José Del Cabo. This year, featured artists include the Los Cabos Big Band, the David Cantoni Quinteto and T’orus.
Dates: May 23 to 24
Location: Fisherman’s Plaza, Hotel Zona, San José del Cabo
Cost: FREE ENTRANCE
8th Annual Paellas Festival
Organized by the Los Cabos Rotary Club and the Los Cabos Hotel Association to collect funds for local educational programs, this event also appeals in particular the local palaces graceful of Paella entries of several of the best chefs of the hotel in the region.
Dates: May 24
Location: Hilton Los Cabos Beach & Golf Resort, Transpeninsular Carretera km 19.5, Los Cabos Tourist Corridor
Cost: 1,300 pesos
Maki Fest Los Cabos 2025
The dish of choice for this culinary competition between the best chefs is the Sushi Maki rolls. Fifteen of the best local chefs will compete for the first prize, the real winners being those who arise to make the sampling. Live music is featured, including a performance of the American saxophonist Scott Page.
Date: May 31
Location: Petunia’s place, Vía de Carlos L 601, Transpeninsular Carretera km 3.7, Cabo San Lucas
Cost: From 1,567 pesos
Chris Sands is the local expert of Cabo San Lucas for the USA TODAY 10 BEST travel website, writer of the Los Cabos Travel Guide in Fodor and contributor to many websites and publications, including Table, Marriott Bonvoy Traveler, Forbes Travel Guide, Portthole Cruise, Cabo Living and Mexico News Daily. Its specialty is the content linked to travel and lifestyle characteristics focused on food, wine and golf.
