VacationSelector

Lisbon or Los Angeles?

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

Your match

Lisbon
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on good for families and value for money with your weighting.

Los Angeles
53
match

Wins on year-round weather and nature & day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

LisbonLos Angeles
Beaches & swimming. Lisbon leads by 28 points.28
LisbonLos Angeles
Score5729
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km240
Coast distance2 km
Water distance2 km
Beaches 25 km11
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Places to eat. Lisbon leads by 14 points.14
LisbonLos Angeles
Score8066
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,4961,337
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3122
Museums & heritage. Lisbon leads by 21 points.21
LisbonLos Angeles
Score7049
Museums within 10 km12469
Museums within 2 km of centre5423
Share of museums within 2 km %4433
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Lisbon leads by 11 points.11
LisbonLos Angeles
Score6554
Drinking venues within 4 km1,225660
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre956432
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7865
Nightclubs within 4 km6564
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 6 points.6
LisbonLos Angeles
Score5662
Protected land share 50 km %1126
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5480
Park area within 2 km77 hectares20 hectares
Good for families. Lisbon leads by 36 points.36
LisbonLos Angeles
Score6933
Tourist attractions within 2 km8211
Park area within 2 km77 hectares20 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Lisbon leads by 12 points.12
LisbonLos Angeles
Score6654
Notable places within 2 km16988
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lisbon leads by 31 points.31
LisbonLos Angeles
Score7443
Price level global55.9100
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 9 points.9
LisbonLos Angeles
Score7887
Monthly daytime high14.9 °C to 28.4 °C18.6 °C to 24.7 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 121 mm0 mm to 76 mm
Dry months48
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
Lisbon
15
16
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
18
15
Los Angeles
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
24
22
19
Sea temperature, °C
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Daylight, hours per day
Lisbon
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Lisbon
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
5
5
Los Angeles
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre). Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLisbonLos Angeles
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 30 m
€112-185
LIS · 7 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
11 h 25 m
€600-640
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€64-74
LIS · 7 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 0 m
€621-718
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
San FranciscoSFO
11 h 25 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
€74-97
LIS · 7 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
10 h 0 m
€744-1049
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
12 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€167-189
LIS · 7 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 55 m
€421-500
2 stops
LIS · 7 km
16 h 25 m
€964-1015
LAX · 19 km
SeoulICN, GMP
12 h 55 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
12 h 0 m
€570-646
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

MeasureLisbonLos Angeles
Official languagePortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation100 m106 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinationsLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonLos Angeles
City population545,7963,898,747
People per km²5,4532,994
Museums within 10 km7838
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre10646
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.