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The Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles
Los AngelesThe Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier
Vieux Nice and the Baie des Anges, Nice
NiceVieux Nice and the Baie des Anges

Photos: Los Angeles by Domenico Convertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Nice by Daniel Stockman, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Los Angeles or Nice?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • families
  • shopping

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

Choose Nice for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Nice’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, Nice 75: Nice leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Los Angeles 84, Nice 66: Los Angeles leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Los Angeles 66, Nice 64: Los Angeles leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Los Angeles 67, Nice 47: Los Angeles leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Angeles and Nice are level on 80.
Day trips. Los Angeles 60, Nice 87: Nice leads by 27 points.
Good for families. Los Angeles 84, Nice 57: Los Angeles leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Los Angeles 25, Nice 74: Nice leads by 49 points.
Shopping & style. Los Angeles 80, Nice 55: Los Angeles leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Los Angeles 24, Nice 35: Nice leads by 11 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Angeles 83, Nice 45: Los Angeles leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Angeles 60, Nice 40: Los Angeles leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Angeles and Nice.

Your match

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

Los Angeles
Best match
64match

Wins on live music and the arts and families with your weighting.

Nice
60match

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

Nice 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 AngelesNice

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

Before you go

MeasureLos AngelesNice
Official language-French
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation106 m0 m
Main airportLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre177 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos AngelesNice
City population3,898,747357,737
People per km²2,9944,975
Museums within 10 km3917
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. 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.