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Florence and the Arno, Florence
FlorenceFlorence and the Arno
The Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles
Los AngelesThe Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier

Photos: Florence by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License; Los Angeles by Domenico Convertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Florence or Los Angeles?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Florence for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Florence’s own page.

Choose Los Angeles for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Los Angeles’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Florence 14, Los Angeles 60: Los Angeles leads by 46 points.
Food & drink. Florence 74, Los Angeles 84: Los Angeles leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Florence 94, Los Angeles 66: Florence leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Florence 42, Los Angeles 67: Los Angeles leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Florence 58, Los Angeles 80: Los Angeles leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Florence 98, Los Angeles 60: Florence leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Florence 45, Los Angeles 84: Los Angeles leads by 39 points.
Getting around. Florence 78, Los Angeles 25: Florence leads by 53 points.
Shopping & style. Florence 72, Los Angeles 80: Los Angeles leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Florence 35, Los Angeles 24: Florence leads by 11 points.
Live music & performing arts. Florence 58, Los Angeles 83: Los Angeles leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Florence 42, Los Angeles 60: Los Angeles leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Florence and Los Angeles.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Florence
59match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

Los Angeles
Best match
64match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Florence in July

32 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
37 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Los Angeles in July

24 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Florence has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Florence's sunshine is measured 71 km from the centre, at Pisa / S. Giusto.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre). Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFlorenceLos 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
Elevation50 m106 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre177 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorenceLos Angeles
City population360,9303,898,747
People per km²3,5282,994
Museums within 10 km14139
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.