VacationSelector

Athens or Los Angeles?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Athens
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on good for families and value for money with your weighting.

Los Angeles
53
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AthensLos Angeles
Beaches & swimming. Athens leads by 19 points.19
AthensLos Angeles
Score4829
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km140
Coast distance6 km
Water distance6 km
Beaches 25 km11
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Places to eat. Athens leads by 3 points.3
AthensLos Angeles
Score6966
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,4311,337
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2522
Museums & heritage. Athens leads by 24 points.24
AthensLos Angeles
Score7349
Museums within 10 km12269
Museums within 2 km of centre7823
Share of museums within 2 km %6433
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Athens leads by 27 points.27
AthensLos Angeles
Score8154
Drinking venues within 4 km2,718660
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,354432
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5065
Nightclubs within 4 km13664
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 17 points.17
AthensLos Angeles
Score4562
Protected land share 50 km %526
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5080
Park area within 2 km128 hectares20 hectares
Good for families. Athens leads by 38 points.38
AthensLos Angeles
Score7133
Tourist attractions within 2 km6811
Park area within 2 km128 hectares20 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Athens leads by 21 points.21
AthensLos Angeles
Score7554
Notable places within 2 km29188
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Athens leads by 31 points.31
AthensLos Angeles
Score7443
Price level global55.8100
Daily budget€125
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 13 points.13
AthensLos Angeles
Score7487
Monthly daytime high13.4 °C to 34.5 °C18.6 °C to 24.7 °C
Monthly rainfall6 mm to 86 mm0 mm to 76 mm
Dry months78
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Athens
13
14
17
21
27
32
34
35
30
24
19
15
Los Angeles
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
24
22
19
Sea temperature, °C
Athens
15
15
15
16
19
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Athens
59
46
41
31
19
7
7
6
24
39
74
86
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Daylight, hours per day
Athens
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Athens
5
5
7
8
10
12
13
12
9
7
5
4
Los Angeles
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Athens: 1991-2020 normals, Athens / Athenai / Pláka (2.2 km from centre). Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAthensLos Angeles
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 30 m
€115-327
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 0 m
€565-638
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€162-235
ATH · 20 km
11 h 25 m
€600-640
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 20 m
€95-237
ATH · 20 km
13 h 35 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 5 m
€125-147
ATH · 20 km
15 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
€97-139
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
12 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
11 h 0 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
MunichMUC
2 h 25 m
€214-254
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 50 m
€174-212
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
11 h 20 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
17 h 15 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureAthensLos Angeles
Official languageGreek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation74 m106 m
Main airportAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (ATH)20 km from centre171 non-stop destinationsLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAthensLos Angeles
City population643,4523,898,747
People per km²16,4992,994
Museums within 10 km8838
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre8246
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.