VacationSelector

Los Angeles or Prague?

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.

Prague
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on good for families 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 AngelesPrague
Beaches & swimming. Los Angeles leads by 29 points.29
Los AngelesPrague
Score290
Beaches 25 km11
Beaches 10 km07
Swim season months00
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Coast distance10,000 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Prague leads by 9 points.9
Los AngelesPrague
Score6675
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,3371,866
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2229
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 23 points.23
Los AngelesPrague
Score4972
Museums within 10 km69138
Museums within 2 km of centre23100
Share of museums within 2 km %3372
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Prague leads by 23 points.23
Los AngelesPrague
Score5477
Drinking venues within 4 km6602,248
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4321,457
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6565
Nightclubs within 4 km64123
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 17 points.17
Los AngelesPrague
Score6245
Protected land share 50 km %2612
Landscape blanket share 50 km %08
Land share of disc %80100
Park area within 2 km20 hectares183 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 42 points.42
Los AngelesPrague
Score3375
Tourist attractions within 2 km1154
Park area within 2 km20 hectares183 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 22 points.22
Los AngelesPrague
Score5476
Notable places within 2 km88310
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Prague leads by 32 points.32
Los AngelesPrague
Score4375
Price level global10055.2
Daily budget€107
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 26 points.26
Los AngelesPrague
Score8761
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 24.7 °C2.2 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 76 mm22 mm to 80 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
Prague
2
5
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
7
3
Sea temperature, °C
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Prague
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Daylight, hours per day
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Los Angeles
No sunshine record
Prague
2
3
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1

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). Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLos AngelesPrague
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 25 m
€600-640
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
15 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
3 h 45 m
€220-244
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 25 m
€964-1015
LAX · 19 km
5 h 55 m
€276-321
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
12 h 5 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 10 m
€126-144
PRG · 12 km
MadridMAD
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 45 m
€146-195
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
SeoulICN, GMP
12 h 0 m
€570-646
LAX · 19 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 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 AngelesPrague
Official languageCzech
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Czech Koruna (CZK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation106 m235 m
Main airportLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinationsVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos AngelesPrague
City population3,898,7471,397,880
People per km²2,9942,817
Museums within 10 km3888
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre4689
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.