VacationSelector

Los Angeles or Pisa?

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 places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Pisa
45
match

Wins on value for money and good for families 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 AngelesPisa
Beaches & swimming. Los Angeles leads by 8 points.8
Los AngelesPisa
Score2921
Beaches 25 km11
Beaches 10 km01
Swim season months04
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Coast distance10 km
Water distance10 km
Places to eat. Los Angeles leads by 32 points.32
Los AngelesPisa
Score6634
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,337379
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km229
Museums & heritage. Pisa leads by 6 points.6
Los AngelesPisa
Score4955
Museums within 10 km6927
Museums within 2 km of centre2322
Share of museums within 2 km %3381
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Los Angeles leads by 26 points.26
Los AngelesPisa
Score5428
Drinking venues within 4 km660232
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre432203
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6588
Nightclubs within 4 km643
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 23 points.23
Los AngelesPisa
Score6239
Protected land share 50 km %269
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8065
Park area within 2 km20 hectares40 hectares
Good for families. Pisa leads by 14 points.14
Los AngelesPisa
Score3347
Tourist attractions within 2 km1120
Park area within 2 km20 hectares40 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Los Angeles leads by 7 points.7
Los AngelesPisa
Score5447
Notable places within 2 km8858
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Pisa leads by 25 points.25
Los AngelesPisa
Score4368
Price level global10064.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 17 points.17
Los AngelesPisa
Score8770
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 24.7 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 76 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months82
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
Pisa
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Pisa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Pisa
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Pisa
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Los Angeles
No sunshine record
Pisa
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3

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). Pisa: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLos AngelesPisa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 25 m
€600-640
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 65 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 10 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
DublinDUB
10 h 25 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
CopenhagenCPH
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 15 m
€102-140
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
MadridMAD
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 5 m
€88-193
PSA · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 25 m
€964-1015
LAX · 19 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 115 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 AngelesPisa
Official languageItalian
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 m4 m
Main airportLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos AngelesPisa
City population3,898,74788,737
People per km²2,994479
Museums within 10 km3827
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
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. 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.