VacationSelector

Los Angeles or Porto?

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 nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

Porto
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on good for families and beaches & swimming 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 AngelesPorto
Beaches & swimming. Porto leads by 31 points.31
Los AngelesPorto
Score2960
Beaches 25 km11
Beaches 10 km052
Swim season months00
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Coast distance4 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Porto leads by 2 points.2
Los AngelesPorto
Score6668
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,3371,172
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2227
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 22 points.22
Los AngelesPorto
Score4971
Museums within 10 km69101
Museums within 2 km of centre2357
Share of museums within 2 km %3356
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Porto leads by 4 points.4
Los AngelesPorto
Score5458
Drinking venues within 4 km660900
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre432570
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6563
Nightclubs within 4 km6438
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 29 points.29
Los AngelesPorto
Score6233
Protected land share 50 km %267
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8061
Park area within 2 km20 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Porto leads by 32 points.32
Los AngelesPorto
Score3365
Tourist attractions within 2 km11122
Park area within 2 km20 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Los Angeles and Porto are level on 54.
Los AngelesPorto
Score5454
Notable places within 2 km8885
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 31 points.31
Los AngelesPorto
Score4374
Price level global10055.9
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 16 points.16
Los AngelesPorto
Score8771
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 24.7 °C13.8 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 76 mm22 mm to 181 mm
Dry months83
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
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Daylight, hours per day
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Los Angeles
No sunshine record
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
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). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLos AngelesPorto
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 25 m
€600-640
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
MadridMAD
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
LisbonLIS
11 h 25 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 0 m
€81
OPO · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
12 h 5 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 45 m
€81-135
OPO · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 10 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 35 m
€158-202
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 35 m
€112-173
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
BostonBOS, PSM
5 h 35 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
6 h 35 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
OPO · 12 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 AngelesPorto
Official languagePortuguese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation106 m104 m
Main airportLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos AngelesPorto
City population3,898,747231,800
People per km²2,9945,599
Museums within 10 km3842
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre4670
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.