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The junk Duk Ling in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong
Hong KongThe junk Duk Ling in Victoria Harbour
The Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles
Los AngelesThe Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier

Photos: Hong Kong by LN9267, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Los Angeles by Domenico Convertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Hong Kong 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 Hong Kong for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • shopping

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

Choose Los Angeles for

  • live music and the arts
  • wellness
  • beaches

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. Hong Kong 50, Los Angeles 60: Los Angeles leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Hong Kong 90, Los Angeles 84: Hong Kong leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Hong Kong 60, Los Angeles 66: Los Angeles leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Hong Kong 68, Los Angeles 67: Hong Kong leads by 1 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hong Kong and Los Angeles are level on 80.
Day trips. Hong Kong 68, Los Angeles 60: Hong Kong leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Hong Kong 75, Los Angeles 84: Los Angeles leads by 9 points.
Getting around. Hong Kong 97, Los Angeles 25: Hong Kong leads by 72 points.
Shopping & style. Hong Kong 88, Los Angeles 80: Hong Kong leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Hong Kong 27, Los Angeles 24: Hong Kong leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hong Kong 55, Los Angeles 83: Los Angeles leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hong Kong 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: Hong Kong and Los Angeles.

Your match

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

Hong Kong
Best match
67match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

Los Angeles
64match

Wins on live music and the arts and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Hong Kong in July

31 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
381 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 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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Hong KongLos Angeles

Temperature and rainfall are 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).

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 centre148 non-stop destinationsLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre177 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHong KongLos Angeles
City population7,413,0703,898,747
People per km²-2,994
Museums within 10 km3939
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 monthsNone

Where else could you go?

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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. 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.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.