🇨🇻Cost of Travel in Cabo Verde (2026): Daily Budgets for 3 Cities
Ten volcanic islands off West Africa — white-sand beaches, morna music drifting from harbor bars, and a laid-back Creole culture almost untouched by mass tourism.
Daily budgets in Cabo Verde
The cheapest city in Cabo Verde is Praia, at $45–85 a day mid-range per person; the priciest is Santa Maria, at $55–120 — about 31% more for the same style of trip.
| City | Budget / day | Mid-range / day | Comfort / day | Cheap meal | Mid-range hotel |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Praia | $25–50 | $45–85 | $80–150 | $5–9 | $45–80 |
| Mindelo | $25–55 | $45–90 | $80–160 | $5–9 | $45–85 |
| Santa Maria | $35–70 | $55–120 | $100–220 | $6–11 | $60–120 |
Per person in US dollars, flights not included. Mid-range is each guide's researched figure and includes a mid-range room; budget and comfort scale it by 0.6 and 1.8, so treat those as rough. How we work these out.
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Set the nights you'd spend in each city. Per person, before flights; each night counts one day of that city's daily budget.
Cities
🇨🇻Mindelo
Cabo VerdeCabo Verde's cultural capital — a colorful harbor town of pastel colonial buildings, morna music, and Carnival, wrapped around one of the best natural bays in the Atlantic.
🇨🇻Praia
Cabo VerdeCabo Verde's hilltop capital — a working African port city of clifftop plateaus, colonial squares, and one of West Africa's biggest markets, with almost no tourist crowds.
🇨🇻Santa Maria
Cabo VerdeCabo Verde's #1 beach resort town — miles of white sand and turquoise water on Sal island, built around a working fishing pier and a booming kitesurfing scene.