VacationSelector

Los Angeles or Malaga?

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

Your match

Los Angeles
53
match

Wins on nature & day trips and sights concentration with your weighting.

Malaga
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

Los AngelesMalaga
Beaches & swimming. Malaga leads by 37 points.37
Los AngelesMalaga
Score2966
Beaches 25 km11—
Beaches 10 km021
Swim season months03
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C—
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing—
Declared2026-08-25—
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json—
Coast distance—0 km
Water distance—0 km
Places to eat. Malaga leads by 3 points.3
Los AngelesMalaga
Score6669
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,3371,002
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2234
Museums & heritage. Malaga leads by 4 points.4
Los AngelesMalaga
Score4953
Museums within 10 km6940
Museums within 2 km of centre2335
Share of museums within 2 km %3388
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Los Angeles and Malaga are level on 54.
Los AngelesMalaga
Score5454
Drinking venues within 4 km660715
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre432486
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6568
Nightclubs within 4 km6445
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 19 points.19
Los AngelesMalaga
Score6243
Protected land share 50 km %267
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8063
Park area within 2 km20 hectares85 hectares
Good for families. Malaga leads by 20 points.20
Los AngelesMalaga
Score3353
Tourist attractions within 2 km1133
Park area within 2 km20 hectares85 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Los Angeles leads by 17 points.17
Los AngelesMalaga
Score5437
Notable places within 2 km8833
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Malaga leads by 28 points.28
Los AngelesMalaga
Score4371
Price level global10060.8
Daily budget—€122
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 5 points.5
Los AngelesMalaga
Score8782
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 24.7 °C17.2 °C to 31.5 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 76 mm0 mm to 88 mm
Dry months85
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
Los Angeles
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
24
22
19
Malaga
17
18
20
22
25
29
31
32
28
24
20
18
Sea temperature, °C
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Malaga
15
15
15
16
18
20
22
23
22
20
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Malaga
62
55
66
41
23
4
0
3
25
60
78
88
Daylight, hours per day
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Malaga
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Los Angeles
No sunshine record
Malaga
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre). Malaga: 1991-2020 normals, Malaga / Aeropuerto (8.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLos AngelesMalaga
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 25 m
€600-640
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
2 h 25 m
€92
AGP · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
12 h 5 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 35 m
€73-109
AGP · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 10 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 9 km
DublinDUB
10 h 25 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
MadridMAD
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
CopenhagenCPH
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
3 h 35 m
€107-122
AGP · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 30 m
€59-73
AGP · 9 km
ViennaVIE
12 h 15 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
3 h 10 m
€140-155
1 stop
AGP · 9 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

MeasureLos AngelesMalaga
Official language–Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation106 m18 m
Main airportLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinationsMálaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP)9 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos AngelesMalaga
City population3,898,747599,063
People per km²2,9941,517
Museums within 10 km3832
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre4665
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone3 months

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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. 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. 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.