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Main Beach with its palms and lifeguard tower, Laguna Beach
Laguna BeachMain Beach with its palms and lifeguard tower
York Minster from the city walls, York
YorkYork Minster from the city walls

Photos: Laguna Beach by Mark Stebnicki, Pexels License; York by PAUL FARMER, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Laguna Beach or York?

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
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose York for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on York’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, York 14: Laguna Beach leads by 58 points.
Food & drink. Laguna Beach 40, York 42: York leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Laguna Beach 27, York 70: York leads by 43 points.
Nightlife. Laguna Beach 18, York 36: York leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Laguna Beach 73, York 62: Laguna Beach leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Laguna Beach 72, York 80: York leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Laguna Beach 68, York 60: Laguna Beach leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Laguna Beach 33, York 72: York leads by 39 points.
Shopping & style. Laguna Beach and York are level on 46.
Affordability. Laguna Beach 12, York 38: York leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Laguna Beach 40, York 38: Laguna Beach leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Laguna Beach 47, York 34: Laguna Beach leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Laguna Beach and York.

Your match

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

Laguna Beach
46match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

York
Best match
49match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around 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

York in July

21 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
62 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
No seasea
17 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

York has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

York's sunshine is measured 48 km from the centre, at Leeming.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Laguna Beach: 1981-2010 normals, Irvine (15.5 km from centre). York: 1991-2020 normals, Linton-On-Ouse (14.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLaguna BeachYork
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 m25 m
Main airportJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)18 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre69 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureLaguna BeachYork
City population23,032208,400
People per km²907766
Museums within 10 km224
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. 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.