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Grote Markt and the Brabo Fountain, Antwerp
AntwerpGrote Markt and the Brabo Fountain
The Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles
Los AngelesThe Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier

Photos: Antwerp by Norbert Jakab, Pexels License; Los Angeles by Domenico Convertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Antwerp or Los Angeles?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Antwerp for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Antwerp’s own page.

Choose Los Angeles for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Los Angeles’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Antwerp 15, Los Angeles 60: Los Angeles leads by 45 points.
Food & drink. Antwerp 62, Los Angeles 84: Los Angeles leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Antwerp 73, Los Angeles 66: Antwerp leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Antwerp 56, Los Angeles 67: Los Angeles leads by 11 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antwerp 33, Los Angeles 80: Los Angeles leads by 47 points.
Day trips. Antwerp 86, Los Angeles 60: Antwerp leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Antwerp 62, Los Angeles 84: Los Angeles leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Antwerp 75, Los Angeles 25: Antwerp leads by 50 points.
Shopping & style. Antwerp 70, Los Angeles 80: Los Angeles leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Antwerp 38, Los Angeles 24: Antwerp leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antwerp 58, Los Angeles 83: Los Angeles leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antwerp 30, Los Angeles 60: Los Angeles leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antwerp and Los Angeles.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Antwerp
55match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

Los Angeles
Best match
64match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Antwerp in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
78 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Los Angeles in July

24 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Antwerp has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Antwerp's sunshine is measured 47 km from the centre, at Uccle.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntwerpLos Angeles
Official languageFrench, German, Dutch-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation7 m106 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre177 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpLos Angeles
City population529,2473,898,747
People per km²2,5422,994
Museums within 10 km3839
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km91
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.