VacationSelector

Bruges or Los Angeles?

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

Your match

Bruges
44
match

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

Los Angeles
✓ Best match
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.

BrugesLos Angeles
Beaches & swimming. Los Angeles leads by 21 points.21
BrugesLos Angeles
Score829
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km10
Coast distance14 km—
Water distance14 km—
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 9 points.9
BrugesLos Angeles
Score5766
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4431,337
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3222
Museums & heritage. Bruges leads by 8 points.8
BrugesLos Angeles
Score5749
Museums within 10 km3069
Museums within 2 km of centre2423
Share of museums within 2 km %8033
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Los Angeles leads by 20 points.20
BrugesLos Angeles
Score3454
Drinking venues within 4 km292660
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre233432
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8065
Nightclubs within 4 km864
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 36 points.36
BrugesLos Angeles
Score2662
Protected land share 50 km %226
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6580
Park area within 2 km59 hectares20 hectares
Good for families. Bruges leads by 27 points.27
BrugesLos Angeles
Score6033
Tourist attractions within 2 km5211
Park area within 2 km59 hectares20 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Los Angeles leads by 14 points.14
BrugesLos Angeles
Score4054
Notable places within 2 km4088
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bruges leads by 17 points.17
BrugesLos Angeles
Score6043
Price level global76.2100
Daily budget€180—
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 31 points.31
BrugesLos Angeles
Score5687
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C18.6 °C to 24.7 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm0 mm to 76 mm
Dry months18
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
Bruges
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Los Angeles
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
24
22
19
Sea temperature, °C
Bruges
7
6
7
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Bruges
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Daylight, hours per day
Bruges
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bruges
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2
Los Angeles
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bruges: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (37.4 km from centre). Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrugesLos Angeles
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 94 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
12 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 94 km
13 h 35 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 94 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 40 m
€120-263
BRU · 94 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
11 h 0 m
€785-892
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
16 h 25 m
€964-1015
LAX · 19 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
12 h 20 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

MeasureBrugesLos 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
Elevation2 m106 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)94 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrugesLos Angeles
City population118,5093,898,747
People per km²8402,994
Museums within 10 km3838
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre5146
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.