VacationSelector

Brussels or Los Angeles?

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

Your match

Brussels
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families 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.

BrusselsLos Angeles
Beaches & swimming. Los Angeles leads by 29 points.29
BrusselsLos Angeles
Score029
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance56 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. Brussels leads by 15 points.15
BrusselsLos Angeles
Score8166
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,7791,337
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4422
Museums & heritage. Brussels leads by 31 points.31
BrusselsLos Angeles
Score8049
Museums within 10 km12069
Museums within 2 km of centre5923
Share of museums within 2 km %4933
Unesco sites within 50 km101
Nightlife. Brussels leads by 14 points.14
BrusselsLos Angeles
Score6854
Drinking venues within 4 km1,414660
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre862432
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6165
Nightclubs within 4 km8464
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 31 points.31
BrusselsLos Angeles
Score3162
Protected land share 50 km %626
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %10080
Park area within 2 km65 hectares20 hectares
Good for families. Brussels leads by 23 points.23
BrusselsLos Angeles
Score5633
Tourist attractions within 2 km2811
Park area within 2 km65 hectares20 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Brussels leads by 19 points.19
BrusselsLos Angeles
Score7354
Notable places within 2 km25488
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Brussels leads by 17 points.17
BrusselsLos Angeles
Score6043
Price level global76.2100
Daily budget€180—
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 30 points.30
BrusselsLos Angeles
Score5787
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.3 °C18.6 °C to 24.7 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 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
Brussels
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
6
Los Angeles
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
24
22
19
Sea temperature, °C
Brussels
No coastline within reach
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Brussels
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Daylight, hours per day
Brussels
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Brussels
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
Los Angeles
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Brussels: 1991-2020 normals, Uccle (5.2 km from centre). Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrusselsLos Angeles
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 11 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 11 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
5 h 0 m
€196-293
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
11 h 0 m
€785-892
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
12 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 11 km
13 h 35 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
16 h 25 m
€964-1015
LAX · 19 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 11 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

MeasureBrusselsLos 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
Elevation70 m106 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)11 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

MeasureBrusselsLos Angeles
City population195,5463,898,747
People per km²5,9082,994
Museums within 10 km10538
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km101
Distinct cuisines in the centre10946
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.