VacationSelector

Los Angeles or Palermo?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Los Angeles
53
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat with your weighting.

Palermo
55
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 AngelesPalermo
Beaches & swimming. Palermo leads by 38 points.38
Los AngelesPalermo
Score2967
Beaches 25 km11—
Beaches 10 km013
Swim season months05
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C—
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing—
Declared2026-08-25—
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json—
Coast distance—1 km
Water distance—1 km
Places to eat. Los Angeles leads by 16 points.16
Los AngelesPalermo
Score6650
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,337807
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2213
Museums & heritage. Palermo leads by 1 points.1
Los AngelesPalermo
Score4950
Museums within 10 km6932
Museums within 2 km of centre2326
Share of museums within 2 km %3381
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Los Angeles leads by 1 points.1
Los AngelesPalermo
Score5453
Drinking venues within 4 km660799
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre432515
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6564
Nightclubs within 4 km6416
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 26 points.26
Los AngelesPalermo
Score6236
Protected land share 50 km %264
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8045
Park area within 2 km20 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Palermo leads by 8 points.8
Los AngelesPalermo
Score3341
Tourist attractions within 2 km1116
Park area within 2 km20 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Palermo leads by 3 points.3
Los AngelesPalermo
Score5457
Notable places within 2 km88104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Palermo leads by 25 points.25
Los AngelesPalermo
Score4368
Price level global10064.9
Daily budget—€155
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 10 points.10
Los AngelesPalermo
Score8777
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 24.7 °C12.6 °C to 27.8 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 76 mm4 mm to 71 mm
Dry months87
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
Palermo
13
13
14
16
20
24
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Daylight, hours per day
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Los Angeles
No sunshine record
Palermo
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
8
7
5
4

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). Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLos AngelesPalermo
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 10 m
€40-52
PMO · 25 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 25 m
€600-640
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
2 h 25 m
€101-135
PMO · 25 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
BarcelonaBCN
12 h 5 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 50 m
€49-107
PMO · 25 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
13 h 35 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 15 m
€183-194
PMO · 25 km
MunichMUC
12 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 0 m
€175-215
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
ViennaVIE
12 h 15 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 0 m
€114-166
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 15 m
€101-154
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
15 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
3 h 10 m
€151-346
1 stop
PMO · 25 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 AngelesPalermo
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 m14 m
Main airportLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos AngelesPalermo
City population3,898,747630,167
People per km²2,9943,924
Museums within 10 km3842
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre4633
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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.