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Main Beach with its palms and lifeguard tower, Laguna Beach
Laguna BeachMain Beach with its palms and lifeguard tower
The Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière, Lyon
LyonThe Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière

Photos: Laguna Beach by Mark Stebnicki, Pexels License; Lyon by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Laguna Beach or Lyon?

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 Lyon for

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Lyon’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, Lyon 12: Laguna Beach leads by 60 points.
Food & drink. Laguna Beach 40, Lyon 84: Lyon leads by 44 points.
Culture & sights. Laguna Beach 27, Lyon 77: Lyon leads by 50 points.
Nightlife. Laguna Beach 18, Lyon 58: Lyon leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. Laguna Beach 73, Lyon 64: Laguna Beach leads by 9 points.
Day trips. Laguna Beach 72, Lyon 77: Lyon leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Laguna Beach 68, Lyon 62: Laguna Beach leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Laguna Beach 33, Lyon 77: Lyon leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Laguna Beach 46, Lyon 58: Lyon leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Laguna Beach 12, Lyon 42: Lyon leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Laguna Beach 40, Lyon 68: Lyon leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Laguna Beach 47, Lyon 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 Lyon.

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.

Lyon
Best match
60match

Wins on culture and sights and food and drink 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

Lyon in July

28 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
66 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Laguna BeachLyon

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Laguna Beach: 1981-2010 normals, Irvine (15.5 km from centre). Lyon: 1991-2020 normals, Lyon / Bron (10.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLaguna BeachLyon
Official language-French
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation6 m160 m
Main airportJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)18 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsLyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (LYS)20 km from centre141 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLaguna BeachLyon
City population23,032519,127
People per km²90710,838
Museums within 10 km243
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.