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The Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles
Los AngelesThe Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier
The Casino de Monte-Carlo, Monaco
MonacoThe Casino de Monte-Carlo

Photos: Los Angeles by Domenico Convertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Monaco by otterboris, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Los Angeles or Monaco?

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

  • shopping
  • food and drink
  • families

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

Choose Monaco for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Monaco’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, Monaco 68: Monaco leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Los Angeles 84, Monaco 57: Los Angeles leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Los Angeles 66, Monaco 55: Los Angeles leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Los Angeles 67, Monaco 48: Los Angeles leads by 19 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Angeles 80, Monaco 70: Los Angeles leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Los Angeles 60, Monaco 84: Monaco leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Los Angeles 84, Monaco 60: Los Angeles leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Los Angeles 25, Monaco 78: Monaco leads by 53 points.
Shopping & style. Los Angeles 80, Monaco 52: Los Angeles leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Los Angeles 24, Monaco 3: Los Angeles leads by 21 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Angeles 83, Monaco 63: Los Angeles leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Angeles 60, Monaco 55: Los Angeles leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Angeles and Monaco.

Your match

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

Los Angeles
Best match
64match

Wins on shopping and food and drink with your weighting.

Monaco
58match

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

Monaco in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Los AngelesMonaco

Temperature and rainfall are 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).

Before you go

MeasureLos AngelesMonaco
Official language-French
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 centre177 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre130 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 km3914
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 months

Where else could you go?

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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. 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.

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.