VacationSelector

Los Angeles or Monaco?

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

Your match

Los Angeles
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Monaco
48
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

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

Los AngelesMonaco
Beaches & swimming. Monaco leads by 44 points.44
Los AngelesMonaco
Score2973
Beaches 25 km11
Beaches 10 km050
Swim season months04
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Coast distance0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Los Angeles leads by 27 points.27
Los AngelesMonaco
Score6639
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,337269
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2216
Museums & heritage. Los Angeles leads by 11 points.11
Los AngelesMonaco
Score4938
Museums within 10 km6923
Museums within 2 km of centre238
Share of museums within 2 km %3335
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Los Angeles leads by 46 points.46
Los AngelesMonaco
Score548
Drinking venues within 4 km66069
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre43263
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6591
Nightclubs within 4 km647
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 9 points.9
Los AngelesMonaco
Score6253
Protected land share 50 km %2624
Landscape blanket share 50 km %017
Land share of disc %8054
Park area within 2 km20 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Monaco leads by 2 points.2
Los AngelesMonaco
Score3335
Tourist attractions within 2 km1114
Park area within 2 km20 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Monaco leads by 10 points.10
Los AngelesMonaco
Score5464
Notable places within 2 km88154
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for moneyNo source publishes a price level for Monaco.
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 13 points.13
Los AngelesMonaco
Score8774
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 24.7 °C13.3 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 76 mm13 mm to 138 mm
Dry months83
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
Monaco
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Monaco
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Monaco
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Daylight, hours per day
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Monaco
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Los Angeles
No sunshine record
Monaco
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
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). Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLos AngelesMonaco
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 25 m
€600-640
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 18 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
5 h 0 m
€196-293
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
MadridMAD
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 50 m
€137-165
NCE · 18 km
DublinDUB
10 h 25 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 25 m
€133-138
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 10 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 18 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
12 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 20 m
€107-192
NCE · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 25 m
€964-1015
LAX · 19 km
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 18 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 AngelesMonaco
Official languageFrench
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCEF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation106 m68 m
Main airportLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos AngelesMonaco
City population3,898,74738,857
People per km²2,99418,503
Museums within 10 km3814
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre4629
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.