VacationSelector

Los Angeles or Paris?

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

Your match

Los Angeles
53
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Paris
✓ Best match
67
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration 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 AngelesParis
Beaches & swimming. Los Angeles leads by 29 points.29
Los AngelesParis
Score290
Beaches 25 km11
Beaches 10 km02
Swim season months00
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Coast distance149 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Paris leads by 24 points.24
Los AngelesParis
Score6690
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,3374,732
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2233
Museums & heritage. Paris leads by 27 points.27
Los AngelesParis
Score4976
Museums within 10 km69185
Museums within 2 km of centre2365
Share of museums within 2 km %3335
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. Paris leads by 34 points.34
Los AngelesParis
Score5488
Drinking venues within 4 km6603,796
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4321,694
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6545
Nightclubs within 4 km64201
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 14 points.14
Los AngelesParis
Score6248
Protected land share 50 km %2628
Landscape blanket share 50 km %026
Land share of disc %80100
Park area within 2 km20 hectares82 hectares
Good for families. Paris leads by 42 points.42
Los AngelesParis
Score3375
Tourist attractions within 2 km1189
Park area within 2 km20 hectares82 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Paris leads by 40 points.40
Los AngelesParis
Score5494
Notable places within 2 km88865
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paris leads by 19 points.19
Los AngelesParis
Score4362
Price level global10073.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 21 points.21
Los AngelesParis
Score8766
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 24.7 °C7.8 °C to 26 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 76 mm38 mm to 75 mm
Dry months81
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
Paris
8
9
13
17
20
24
26
26
22
17
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Paris
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Paris
45
38
41
45
75
51
58
54
51
55
54
62
Daylight, hours per day
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Paris
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8

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). Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLos AngelesParis
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
7 h 30 m
€579-648
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 5 m
€63-103
CDG · 22 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 0 m
€785-892
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
12 h 5 m
€705-999
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
San FranciscoSFO
1 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
Las VegasLAS
1 h 5 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
PhoenixPHX, AZA
1 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
Salt Lake CitySLC
1 h 45 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
4 h 20 m
€288
LAX · 19 km
9 h 0 m
€555-767
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 25 m
€964-1015
LAX · 19 km
6 h 50 m
€292-389
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
3 h 35 m
€261-303
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
CDG · 22 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 AngelesParis
Official languageFrench
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 m27 m
Main airportLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinationsCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos AngelesParis
City population3,898,7472,103,778
People per km²2,99419,960
Museums within 10 km38251
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre46169
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.