VacationSelector

Atlanta or Los Angeles?

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

Your match

Atlanta
40
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Los Angeles
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

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

AtlantaLos Angeles
Beaches & swimming. Los Angeles leads by 29 points.29
AtlantaLos Angeles
Score029
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance373 km
Water distance
Beaches 25 km11
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Places to eat. Los Angeles leads by 7 points.7
AtlantaLos Angeles
Score5966
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7391,337
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2322
Museums & heritage. Los Angeles leads by 14 points.14
AtlantaLos Angeles
Score3549
Museums within 10 km4169
Museums within 2 km of centre1623
Share of museums within 2 km %3933
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Los Angeles leads by 5 points.5
AtlantaLos Angeles
Score4954
Drinking venues within 4 km531660
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre284432
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5365
Nightclubs within 4 km4664
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 31 points.31
AtlantaLos Angeles
Score3162
Protected land share 50 km %126
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10080
Park area within 2 km113 hectares20 hectares
Good for families. Los Angeles leads by 1 points.1
AtlantaLos Angeles
Score3233
Tourist attractions within 2 km211
Park area within 2 km113 hectares20 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Los Angeles leads by 14 points.14
AtlantaLos Angeles
Score4054
Notable places within 2 km3988
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Atlanta and Los Angeles are level on 43.
AtlantaLos Angeles
Score4343
Price level global100100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 20 points.20
AtlantaLos Angeles
Score6787
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 32 °C18.6 °C to 24.7 °C
Monthly rainfall80 mm to 121 mm0 mm to 76 mm
Dry months08
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
Atlanta
12
14
19
23
27
30
32
32
29
23
18
13
Los Angeles
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
24
22
19
Sea temperature, °C
Atlanta
No coastline within reach
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Atlanta
116
116
119
99
90
117
121
109
97
80
102
116
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Daylight, hours per day
Atlanta
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Atlanta: 1991-2020 normals, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta (29.2 km from centre). Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAtlantaLos Angeles
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 5 m
€152-200
ATL · 14 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
1 h 50 m
€161-221
ATL · 14 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
PhoenixPHX, AZA
3 h 40 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
1 h 40 m
€84-125
ATL · 14 km
5 h 0 m
€196-293
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
San FranciscoSFO
4 h 40 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
Las VegasLAS
4 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
2 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
3 h 15 m
€173-245
LAX · 19 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
San JoseSJO
3 h 45 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
5 h 50 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
SeoulICN, GMP
14 h 10 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
12 h 0 m
€570-646
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 2026-09 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

MeasureAtlantaLos Angeles
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation225 m106 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaLos Angeles
City population498,7153,898,747
People per km²1,4332,994
Museums within 10 km2738
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre5646
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. 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.