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The Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles
Los AngelesThe Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier
The church of San Francisco under a blue sky, Quito
QuitoThe church of San Francisco under a blue sky

Photos: Los Angeles by Domenico Convertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Quito by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Los Angeles or Quito?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Los Angeles for

  • beaches
  • families
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Los Angeles’s own page.

Choose Quito for

  • prices
  • getting around
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Quito’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Los Angeles 60, Quito 5: Los Angeles leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Los Angeles 84, Quito 54: Los Angeles leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Los Angeles 66, Quito 77: Quito leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Los Angeles 67, Quito 40: Los Angeles leads by 27 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Angeles 80, Quito 86: Quito leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Los Angeles 60, Quito 55: Los Angeles leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Los Angeles 84, Quito 32: Los Angeles leads by 52 points.
Getting around. Los Angeles 25, Quito 45: Quito leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Los Angeles 80, Quito 40: Los Angeles leads by 40 points.
Affordability. Los Angeles 24, Quito 78: Quito leads by 54 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Angeles 83, Quito 38: Los Angeles leads by 45 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Angeles 60, Quito 44: Los Angeles leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Angeles and Quito.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Los Angeles
Best match
64match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Quito
50match

Wins on prices and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Los Angeles in July

24 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Quito in July

18 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
32 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Quito's station stands 208 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre). Quito: 1961-1990 normals, Izobamba-Santa Catalina (16.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos AngelesQuito
Official language-Spanish, Shuar, Northern Quichua
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number911911
Elevation106 m2,850 m
Main airportLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre177 non-stop destinationsMariscal Sucre International Airport (UIO)20 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos AngelesQuito
City population3,898,7471,763,275
People per km²2,9944,735
Museums within 10 km3916
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.