VacationSelector

Hong Kong or Los Angeles?

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

Your match

Hong Kong
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families with your weighting.

Los Angeles
53
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

Hong KongLos Angeles
Beaches & swimming. Hong Kong leads by 58 points.58
Hong KongLos Angeles
Score8729
Swim season months80
Beaches 10 km650
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. Hong Kong leads by 22 points.22
Hong KongLos Angeles
Score8866
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,3251,337
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3222
Museums & heritage. Los Angeles leads by 13 points.13
Hong KongLos Angeles
Score3649
Museums within 10 km5069
Museums within 2 km of centre1723
Share of museums within 2 km %3433
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Hong Kong leads by 17 points.17
Hong KongLos Angeles
Score7154
Drinking venues within 4 km1,948660
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,154432
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5965
Nightclubs within 4 km3764
Nature & day trips. Hong Kong leads by 2 points.2
Hong KongLos Angeles
Score6462
Protected land share 50 km %826
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %2980
Park area within 2 km52 hectares20 hectares
Good for families. Hong Kong leads by 25 points.25
Hong KongLos Angeles
Score5833
Tourist attractions within 2 km2711
Park area within 2 km52 hectares20 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km52
Sights concentration. Hong Kong leads by 15 points.15
Hong KongLos Angeles
Score6954
Notable places within 2 km20488
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Hong Kong leads by 20 points.20
Hong KongLos Angeles
Score6343
Price level global72100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 13 points.13
Hong KongLos Angeles
Score7487
Monthly daytime high19.4 °C to 31.3 °C18.6 °C to 24.7 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 493 mm0 mm to 76 mm
Dry months48
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
Hong Kong
19
20
22
26
29
30
31
31
31
28
25
21
Los Angeles
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
24
22
19
Sea temperature, °C
Hong Kong
20
20
21
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Hong Kong
23
39
70
144
280
493
381
453
331
92
36
31
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Daylight, hours per day
Hong Kong
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Hong Kong
5
3
3
4
5
5
7
6
6
6
6
5
Los Angeles
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre). Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHong KongLos Angeles
TokyoHND, NRT
4 h 5 m
€279-371
HKG · 25 km
11 h 0 m
€785-892
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
San FranciscoSFO
13 h 45 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
SeoulICN, GMP
3 h 5 m
€168-188
HKG · 25 km
12 h 0 m
€570-646
LAX · 19 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
2 h 10 m
€147-156
HKG · 25 km
12 h 55 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
2 h 40 m
€170-184
HKG · 25 km
16 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
3 h 0 m
€127-156
HKG · 25 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
12 h 45 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
2 h 45 m
€166-318
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 55 m
€586-713
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
11 h 25 m
€600-640
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
17 h 15 m
no fares
SZX · 54 km
3 h 35 m
€261-303
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
€472-535
1 stop
HKG · 25 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 2026-09 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

MeasureHong KongLos Angeles
Official languageStandard Chinese
CurrencyHong Kong Dollar (HKD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number999911
Elevation7 m106 m
Main airportHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre151 non-stop destinationsLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHong KongLos Angeles
City population7,413,0703,898,747
People per km²2,994
Museums within 10 km3938
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre7646
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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.