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Main Beach with its palms and lifeguard tower, Laguna Beach
Laguna BeachMain Beach with its palms and lifeguard tower
Big Ben and Westminster Bridge, London
LondonBig Ben and Westminster Bridge

Photos: Laguna Beach by Mark Stebnicki, Pexels License; London by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Laguna Beach or London?

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 Laguna Beach for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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

Choose London for

  • nightlife
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on London’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. Laguna Beach 72, London 25: Laguna Beach leads by 47 points.
Food & drink. Laguna Beach 40, London 84: London leads by 44 points.
Culture & sights. Laguna Beach 27, London 94: London leads by 67 points.
Nightlife. Laguna Beach 18, London 88: London leads by 70 points.
Nature & outdoors. Laguna Beach 73, London 57: Laguna Beach leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Laguna Beach 72, London 90: London leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Laguna Beach 68, London 82: London leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Laguna Beach 33, London 85: London leads by 52 points.
Shopping & style. Laguna Beach 46, London 95: London leads by 49 points.
Affordability. Laguna Beach 12, London 15: London leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Laguna Beach 40, London 98: London leads by 58 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Laguna Beach 47, London 40: Laguna Beach leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Laguna Beach and London.

Your match

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

Laguna Beach
46match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

London
Best match
71match

Wins on nightlife and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Laguna Beach in July

28 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

London in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
46 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Laguna BeachLondon

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Laguna Beach: 1981-2010 normals, Irvine (15.5 km from centre). London: 1992-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, London Weather Centre (1.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLaguna BeachLondon
Official language-English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 999
Elevation6 m4 m
Main airportJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)18 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre224 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureLaguna BeachLondon
City population23,0328,799,728
People per km²9075,598
Museums within 10 km2216
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.