VacationSelector

Fort Lauderdale or Los Angeles?

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

Your match

Fort Lauderdale
45
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Los Angeles
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

Fort LauderdaleLos Angeles
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 55 points.55
Fort LauderdaleLos Angeles
Score8429
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km70
Coast distance0 km
Water distance0 km
Beaches 25 km11
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Places to eat. Los Angeles leads by 21 points.21
Fort LauderdaleLos Angeles
Score4566
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3711,337
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1822
Museums & heritage. Los Angeles leads by 29 points.29
Fort LauderdaleLos Angeles
Score2049
Museums within 10 km1469
Museums within 2 km of centre623
Share of museums within 2 km %4333
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Los Angeles leads by 20 points.20
Fort LauderdaleLos Angeles
Score3454
Drinking venues within 4 km259660
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre144432
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5665
Nightclubs within 4 km1864
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 19 points.19
Fort LauderdaleLos Angeles
Score8162
Protected land share 50 km %2026
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5180
Park area within 2 km45 hectares20 hectares
Good for families. Los Angeles leads by 14 points.14
Fort LauderdaleLos Angeles
Score1933
Tourist attractions within 2 km211
Park area within 2 km45 hectares20 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Los Angeles leads by 54 points.54
Fort LauderdaleLos Angeles
Score054
Notable places within 2 km288
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Fort Lauderdale and Los Angeles are level on 43.
Fort LauderdaleLos Angeles
Score4343
Price level global100100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 11 points.11
Fort LauderdaleLos Angeles
Score7687
Monthly daytime high24.2 °C to 32.3 °C18.6 °C to 24.7 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 219 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
Fort Lauderdale
24
26
27
29
30
31
32
32
31
30
27
26
Los Angeles
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
24
22
19
Sea temperature, °C
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Daylight, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre). Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFort LauderdaleLos Angeles
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 40 m
€140-271
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 55 m
€119-159
FLL · 7 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
San FranciscoSFO
5 h 35 m
€349-373
2 stops
FLL · 7 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
PhoenixPHX, AZA
4 h 25 m
no fares
FLL · 7 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
2 h 25 m
€164-177
FLL · 7 km
5 h 0 m
€196-293
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 0 m
€167-168
FLL · 7 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
5 h 50 m
no fares
FLL · 7 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
MadridMAD
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
3 h 5 m
€278-290
MIA · 41 km
3 h 35 m
€261-303
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 41 km
16 h 25 m
€964-1015
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

MeasureFort LauderdaleLos Angeles
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation11 m106 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort LauderdaleLos Angeles
City population182,7603,898,747
People per km²1,8292,994
Museums within 10 km638
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre2546
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. 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.