Written by the Cabos Airport Transportation operations team — we drive these routes every day.
Across 47 zones at two Mexican Pacific airports, a prearranged transfer costs between $50 and $528 per vehicle, one way. This page publishes the whole rate book — every zone, every vehicle class, with the capacity each price buys — what it can and cannot compare to the taxi kiosk inside arrivals, and why rideshare is not an option at either curb. Every figure here is the one our own booking system charges.
How we built this
Most “how much is an airport transfer” page is an estimate written by someone who does not sell the ride. This one is not. We operate both of these routes and we charge a fixed price per zone, published before you fly, so one side of this table is a primary source: it is our own rate book, read out of the production booking system that takes the payment. The other side — what the union taxi kiosk inside arrivals charges — is not ours, and we treat it differently. Every figure below carries the level of evidence behind it.
| Level | What it is | Source behind each figure |
|---|---|---|
| A | Our own published rates, three brands | Read from the production pricing table on 11 October 2026 — the same row the checkout charges. Verifiable by quoting the route on the booking form |
| B | Third-party rates (union taxi kiosk) | Published nowhere online. Included only with a dated photograph of the tariff board; otherwise the cell reads “rate not published online” |
| C | Regulatory facts (rideshare bans, fines) | Included only where we can point at a primary document. Where we cannot, we say so instead of repeating the number everyone else repeats |
Los Cabos: SJD to 8 zones
Eight destination zones from Los Cabos International Airport, three vehicle classes. Each price is for the whole vehicle, one way, not per person, and the number in brackets is how many passengers that price carries.
| Zone | VIP Suburban (1-6) | Van (1-8) | Sprinter (1-18) |
|---|---|---|---|
| San José del Cabo | $84 | $84 | $138 |
| Los Cabos Corridor | $100 | $92 | $153 |
| Cabo San Lucas | $115 | $107 | $169 |
| Pedregal & Diamante | $130 | $123 | $200 |
| Los Barriles | $200 | $184 | $261 |
| Cabo Pulmo | $200 | $184 | $261 |
| Todos Santos | $230 | $215 | $307 |
| La Paz | $307 | $292 | $492 |
The kiosk column we cannot fill yet
This is the column the index was built to carry, and it is the one we cannot fill honestly yet. The taxi union operates a tariff board inside the SJD arrivals hall, quoted by zone after you have landed. We have published range estimates for it in the past, gathered informally; we are not reproducing them here, because we cannot attach a source to each figure, and a price index whose method section says “we show our evidence” should not then show a number it cannot evidence.
| SJD zone | Union taxi kiosk rate | Date observed | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| San José del Cabo (zone 1) | rate not published online | — | — |
| Puerto Los Cabos (zone 2) | rate not published online | — | — |
| Los Cabos Corridor (zone 3) | rate not published online | — | — |
| Cabo San Lucas (zone 4) | rate not published online | — | — |
| Pacific side (zone 5) | rate not published online | — | — |
The same is true at PVR. Between the two airports, that is the quietest finding in this index: at neither curb can a traveller learn the official taxi price before they are standing at the counter with their luggage, in a queue, deciding in a hurry. A rate that exists only on a board inside the terminal is a rate you cannot shop against.
Puerto Vallarta: PVR to 11 zones
The eleven zones around Banderas Bay, the ones most travellers land for. The arrivals taxi is a three-passenger vehicle and is available on arrival only; it is not a van and not a Sprinter, whatever the queue outside tells you. The remaining 28 zones in the Puerto Vallarta rate book — the corridor north to San Blas and south to Manzanillo — are published in full on the Vallarta edition of this index, linked below.
| Zone | Taxi (1-3, arrivals only) | Standard (1-4) | Suburban SUV (1-6) | Van (1-8) | Sprinter (1-18) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marina Vallarta | $50 | $68 | $110 | $103 | $169 |
| Zona Hotelera | $52 | $79 | $120 | $120 | $189 |
| Vidanta | $53 | $79 | $120 | $120 | $185 |
| Conchas Chinas | $58 | $104 | $131 | $135 | $207 |
| Nuevo Vallarta | $58 | $104 | $131 | $118 | $207 |
| Bucerías | $67 | $110 | $148 | $140 | $218 |
| La Cruz de Huanacaxtle | $91 | $115 | $180 | $164 | $229 |
| La Cruz – Punta del Burro | $128 | $138 | $192 | $184 | $240 |
| Punta del Burro – Corral del Risco | $141 | $155 | $219 | $199 | $250 |
| Mismaloya | $151 | $155 | $219 | $205 | $249 |
| Punta Mita | $161 | $168 | $234 | $205 | $270 |
Uber and DiDi at SJD: not an option at the curb
Neither Uber nor DiDi picks up at the Los Cabos airport terminals, and the same is true at Puerto Vallarta. Whatever the app shows you while you are still in the baggage hall, the concession for ground transport out of those terminals does not include rideshare, which is why travellers who plan on opening the app land and discover they are choosing between the union kiosk and whatever they prearranged.
Price per kilometre: the pattern nobody publishes
Read the SJD table down a row rather than across and the real pricing rule falls out: you are buying distance, not a vehicle. A VIP Suburban to San José del Cabo is $84. A Van to the same zone is also $84 — same price, two more seats, a visibly different vehicle. Out at La Paz, the longest run in the book, the gap between the two is $15 on a $300 journey. The vehicle class barely moves the number; the zone moves all of it.
Puerto Vallarta shows the same rule with a sharper edge, because its corridor runs far further. There the arrivals taxi climbs $17 across the 26 km from Marina Vallarta to Buceriás, then $24 across the next 9 km to La Cruz de Huanacaxtle, then another $70 to Punta Mita — so a Punta Mita arrival pays 3.1 times the Zona Hotelera fare for a drive that is nowhere near 3.1 times as long. One more wrinkle belongs to the third brand in this index: a genuine per-seat shared shuttle from PVR exists in exactly two of the eleven bay zones, Vidanta and Nuevo Vallarta, and the arithmetic of when it beats a whole vehicle is close enough to be surprising — at three passengers to Nuevo Vallarta the private vehicle wins by $2. That is set out in the per-seat shuttle math for Vidanta and Nuevo Vallarta.
Download the data
The full index is a single CSV: 118 rows covering all 47 zones at both airports, every vehicle class with its passenger capacity, the per-seat shuttle rates, and the third-party cells marked with why they are empty. Each row carries its evidence level and the date it was read. Reuse it with attribution — it is published under CC BY 4.0, and we would rather be cited than paraphrased.
This index is published annually. If you are writing about airport ground transport in Mexico and want a figure checked, or want the underlying rows for a zone that is not here, the fastest route is the booking form: every price on this page can be reproduced by quoting the route.
