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The Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles
Los AngelesThe Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier
The cathedral from Piazza del Duomo, Milan
MilanThe cathedral from Piazza del Duomo

Photos: Los Angeles by Domenico Convertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Milan by Jiuguang Wang, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Los Angeles or Milan?

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 Los Angeles for

  • beaches
  • families
  • wellness

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

Choose Milan for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Milan’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. Los Angeles 60, Milan 20: Los Angeles leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Los Angeles 84, Milan 78: Los Angeles leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Los Angeles 66, Milan 78: Milan leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Los Angeles 67, Milan 66: Los Angeles leads by 1 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Angeles 80, Milan 65: Los Angeles leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Los Angeles 60, Milan 91: Milan leads by 31 points.
Good for families. Los Angeles 84, Milan 55: Los Angeles leads by 29 points.
Getting around. Los Angeles 25, Milan 79: Milan leads by 54 points.
Shopping & style. Los Angeles 80, Milan 92: Milan leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Los Angeles 24, Milan 33: Milan leads by 9 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Angeles 83, Milan 82: Los Angeles leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Angeles 60, Milan 42: Los Angeles leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Angeles and Milan.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Los Angeles
64match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Milan
65match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Milan in July

30 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
70 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Milan 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.

Milan's sunshine is measured 41 km from the centre, at Novara / Cameri.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre). Milan: 1991-2020 normals, Milano / Linate (8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos AngelesMilan
Official language-Italian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation106 m138 m
Main airportLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre177 non-stop destinationsMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)40 km from centre208 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos AngelesMilan
City population3,898,7471,354,196
People per km²2,9947,453
Museums within 10 km3988
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
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. 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.

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.