VacationSelector

Interlaken or Los Angeles?

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

Your match

Interlaken
23
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Los Angeles
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

InterlakenLos Angeles
Beaches & swimming. Los Angeles leads by 29 points.29
InterlakenLos Angeles
Score029
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km120
Coast distance713 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 37 points.37
InterlakenLos Angeles
Score2966
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1181,337
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1722
Museums & heritage. Los Angeles leads by 26 points.26
InterlakenLos Angeles
Score2349
Museums within 10 km569
Museums within 2 km of centre223
Share of museums within 2 km %4033
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Los Angeles leads by 50 points.50
InterlakenLos Angeles
Score454
Drinking venues within 4 km42660
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre38432
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9065
Nightclubs within 4 km364
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 35 points.35
InterlakenLos Angeles
Score2762
Protected land share 50 km %1926
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10080
Park area within 2 km5 hectares20 hectares
Good for families. Los Angeles leads by 19 points.19
InterlakenLos Angeles
Score1433
Tourist attractions within 2 km1111
Park area within 2 km5 hectares20 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Los Angeles leads by 32 points.32
InterlakenLos Angeles
Score2254
Notable places within 2 km1488
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Los Angeles leads by 8 points.8
InterlakenLos Angeles
Score3543
Price level global110.5100
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 30 points.30
InterlakenLos Angeles
Score5787
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 23.6 °C18.6 °C to 24.7 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 68 mm0 mm to 76 mm
Dry months38
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
Interlaken
3
5
9
15
17
22
24
23
18
14
7
4
Los Angeles
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
24
22
19
Sea temperature, °C
Interlaken
No coastline within reach
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Daylight, hours per day
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
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. Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre). Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInterlakenLos Angeles
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 100 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
San FranciscoSFO
11 h 40 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
Las VegasLAS
11 h 25 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
9 h 5 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 100 km
11 h 25 m
€600-640
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
11 h 0 m
€785-892
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 100 km
13 h 35 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
16 h 25 m
€964-1015
LAX · 19 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 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

MeasureInterlakenLos Angeles
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation571 m106 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinationsLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureInterlakenLos Angeles
City population6,1233,898,747
People per km²1,4242,994
Museums within 10 km338
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.