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The Three Graces at Pier Head, Liverpool
LiverpoolThe Three Graces at Pier Head
The Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles
Los AngelesThe Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier

Photos: Liverpool by Marathon, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Los Angeles by Domenico Convertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Liverpool or Los Angeles?

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 Liverpool for

  • getting around
  • prices
  • day trips

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

Choose Los Angeles for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Los Angeles’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. Liverpool 22, Los Angeles 60: Los Angeles leads by 38 points.
Food & drink. Liverpool 48, Los Angeles 84: Los Angeles leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. Liverpool 64, Los Angeles 66: Los Angeles leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Liverpool 66, Los Angeles 67: Los Angeles leads by 1 points.
Nature & outdoors. Liverpool 52, Los Angeles 80: Los Angeles leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Liverpool 64, Los Angeles 60: Liverpool leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Liverpool 55, Los Angeles 84: Los Angeles leads by 29 points.
Getting around. Liverpool 68, Los Angeles 25: Liverpool leads by 43 points.
Shopping & style. Liverpool 52, Los Angeles 80: Los Angeles leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Liverpool 50, Los Angeles 24: Liverpool leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Liverpool 66, Los Angeles 83: Los Angeles leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Liverpool 22, Los Angeles 60: Los Angeles leads by 38 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Liverpool and Los Angeles.

Your match

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

Liverpool
52match

Wins on getting around and prices with your weighting.

Los Angeles
Best match
64match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Liverpool in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
67 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Los Angeles in July

24 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Liverpool's temperatures are measured 47 km from the centre, at Manchester Airport.

Liverpool 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.

Temperature and rainfall are 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).

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 centre75 non-stop destinationsLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre177 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 km3139
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.