VacationSelector

Liverpool or Los Angeles?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Liverpool
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families with your weighting.

Los Angeles
53
match

Wins on year-round weather and places to eat 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.

LiverpoolLos Angeles
Beaches & swimming. Liverpool leads by 31 points.31
LiverpoolLos Angeles
Score6029
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km340
Coast distance2 km—
Water distance2 km—
Beaches 25 km—11
Warmest sea temp—20.2 °C
Scoring variant—beachScoreWideRing
Declared—2026-08-25
Register—seed/editorial-overrides.json
Places to eat. Los Angeles leads by 6 points.6
LiverpoolLos Angeles
Score6066
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5421,337
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3222
Museums & heritage. Los Angeles leads by 6 points.6
LiverpoolLos Angeles
Score4349
Museums within 10 km2369
Museums within 2 km of centre1223
Share of museums within 2 km %5233
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Liverpool leads by 7 points.7
LiverpoolLos Angeles
Score6154
Drinking venues within 4 km977660
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre651432
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6765
Nightclubs within 4 km7964
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 4 points.4
LiverpoolLos Angeles
Score5862
Protected land share 50 km %—26
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6080
Park area within 2 km81 hectares20 hectares
Good for families. Liverpool leads by 25 points.25
LiverpoolLos Angeles
Score5833
Tourist attractions within 2 km2511
Park area within 2 km81 hectares20 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km32
Sights concentration. Los Angeles leads by 4 points.4
LiverpoolLos Angeles
Score5054
Notable places within 2 km6888
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Liverpool leads by 11 points.11
LiverpoolLos Angeles
Score5443
Price level global84.9100
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 33 points.33
LiverpoolLos Angeles
Score5487
Monthly daytime high7.2 °C to 20.8 °C18.6 °C to 24.7 °C
Monthly rainfall51 mm to 95 mm0 mm to 76 mm
Dry months08
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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A
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Daytime high, °C
Liverpool
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Los Angeles
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
24
22
19
Sea temperature, °C
Liverpool
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Liverpool
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Daylight, hours per day
Liverpool
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Liverpool
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
2
2
Los Angeles
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Liverpool: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (47.4 km from centre). Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromLiverpoolLos Angeles
Las VegasLAS
10 h 15 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
11 h 25 m
€600-640
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
OrlandoMCO, SFB, ORL
8 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
4 h 50 m
€205-248
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 25 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 35 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
16 h 25 m
€964-1015
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 2026-09 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

MeasureLiverpoolLos Angeles
Official languageEnglish–
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation70 m106 m
Main airportLiverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL)12 km from centre74 non-stop destinationsLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLiverpoolLos Angeles
City population513,4413,898,747
People per km²4,5922,994
Museums within 10 km3138
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre4946
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). 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. 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.