VacationSelector

Bologna or Los Angeles?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Bologna
52
match

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

Los Angeles
53
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

BolognaLos Angeles
Beaches & swimming. Los Angeles leads by 29 points.29
BolognaLos Angeles
Score029
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km20
Coast distance74 km—
Water distance——
Beaches 25 km—11
Warmest sea temp—20.2 °C
Scoring variant—beachScoreWideRing
Declared—2026-08-25
Register—seed/editorial-overrides.json
Places to eat. Los Angeles leads by 8 points.8
BolognaLos Angeles
Score5866
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8221,337
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2022
Museums & heritage. Bologna leads by 18 points.18
BolognaLos Angeles
Score6749
Museums within 10 km5869
Museums within 2 km of centre4323
Share of museums within 2 km %7433
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Los Angeles leads by 1 points.1
BolognaLos Angeles
Score5354
Drinking venues within 4 km720660
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre531432
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7465
Nightclubs within 4 km3064
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 23 points.23
BolognaLos Angeles
Score3962
Protected land share 50 km %726
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %10080
Park area within 2 km119 hectares20 hectares
Good for families. Bologna leads by 22 points.22
BolognaLos Angeles
Score5533
Tourist attractions within 2 km3211
Park area within 2 km119 hectares20 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Bologna leads by 6 points.6
BolognaLos Angeles
Score6054
Notable places within 2 km12088
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bologna leads by 25 points.25
BolognaLos Angeles
Score6843
Price level global64.9100
Daily budget€155—
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 20 points.20
BolognaLos Angeles
Score6787
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 31.5 °C18.6 °C to 24.7 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 75 mm0 mm to 76 mm
Dry months58
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
Bologna
7
10
15
19
24
29
32
32
26
19
13
8
Los Angeles
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
24
22
19
Sea temperature, °C
Bologna
No coastline within reach
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Bologna
36
36
49
54
50
37
34
40
75
75
70
58
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Daylight, hours per day
Bologna
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bologna
3
4
6
7
8
10
11
10
7
5
3
3
Los Angeles
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 km from centre). Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBolognaLos Angeles
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€114-267
BLQ · 6 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€158-262
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
11 h 25 m
€600-640
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 138 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€42-75
BLQ · 6 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
13 h 35 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
12 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
16 h 25 m
€964-1015
LAX · 19 km
CancunCUN
11 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 106 km
4 h 40 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureBolognaLos Angeles
Official languageItalian–
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation54 m106 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre97 non-stop destinationsLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaLos Angeles
City population387,9713,898,747
People per km²2,7542,994
Museums within 10 km6638
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre6246
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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). 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. 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.