VacationSelector

Como or Los Angeles?

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

Your match

Como
34
match

Wins on value for money with your weighting.

Los Angeles
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife 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.

ComoLos Angeles
Beaches & swimming. Los Angeles leads by 29 points.29
ComoLos Angeles
Score029
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km80
Coast distance156 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 41 points.41
ComoLos Angeles
Score2566
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2591,337
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km722
Museums & heritage. Los Angeles leads by 3 points.3
ComoLos Angeles
Score4649
Museums within 10 km969
Museums within 2 km of centre623
Share of museums within 2 km %6733
Unesco sites within 50 km81
Nightlife. Los Angeles leads by 30 points.30
ComoLos Angeles
Score2454
Drinking venues within 4 km213660
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre143432
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6765
Nightclubs within 4 km164
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 22 points.22
ComoLos Angeles
Score4062
Protected land share 50 km %2326
Landscape blanket share 50 km %50
Land share of disc %10080
Park area within 2 km15 hectares20 hectares
Good for families. Los Angeles leads by 18 points.18
ComoLos Angeles
Score1533
Tourist attractions within 2 km611
Park area within 2 km15 hectares20 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Los Angeles leads by 24 points.24
ComoLos Angeles
Score3054
Notable places within 2 km2288
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Como leads by 25 points.25
ComoLos Angeles
Score6843
Price level global64.9100
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 29 points.29
ComoLos Angeles
Score5887
Monthly daytime high7.1 °C to 27.3 °C18.6 °C to 24.7 °C
Monthly rainfall61 mm to 178 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
Como
7
9
14
17
21
25
27
27
22
17
12
8
Los Angeles
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
24
22
19
Sea temperature, °C
Como
No coastline within reach
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Como
69
61
76
138
178
172
158
158
168
150
167
80
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Daylight, hours per day
Como
9
10
12
14
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
Como
4
5
6
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
4
3
Los Angeles
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Como: 1991-2020 normals, Lugano (23 km from centre). Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromComoLos Angeles
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 34 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€48-103
MXP · 34 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 34 km
11 h 25 m
€600-640
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 30 m
€34-53
MXP · 34 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€116-135
LIN · 43 km
12 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
MadridMAD
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 34 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
TokyoHND, NRT
12 h 10 m
no fares
MXP · 34 km
11 h 0 m
€785-892
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 34 km
13 h 35 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 34 km
16 h 25 m
€964-1015
LAX · 19 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
11 h 50 m
€1,114-1167
2 stops
MXP · 34 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

MeasureComoLos 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
Elevation201 m106 m
Main airportMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)34 km from centre203 non-stop destinationsLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureComoLos Angeles
City population83,1843,898,747
People per km²2,2422,994
Museums within 10 km938
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km81
Distinct cuisines in the centre2246
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). 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.