VacationSelector

Los Angeles or Rome?

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 year-round weather and places to eat with your weighting.

Rome
✓ Best match
72
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 AngelesRome
Beaches & swimming. Rome leads by 4 points.4
Los AngelesRome
Score2933
Beaches 25 km11—
Beaches 10 km03
Swim season months05
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C—
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing—
Declared2026-08-25—
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json—
Coast distance—24 km
Water distance—24 km
Places to eat. Los Angeles leads by 6 points.6
Los AngelesRome
Score6660
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,3372,241
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2210
Museums & heritage. Rome leads by 35 points.35
Los AngelesRome
Score4984
Museums within 10 km69161
Museums within 2 km of centre2379
Share of museums within 2 km %3349
Unesco sites within 50 km17
Nightlife. Rome leads by 20 points.20
Los AngelesRome
Score5474
Drinking venues within 4 km6602,022
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre432912
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6545
Nightclubs within 4 km6485
Nature & day trips. Rome leads by 8 points.8
Los AngelesRome
Score6270
Protected land share 50 km %2619
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8078
Park area within 2 km20 hectares172 hectares
Good for families. Rome leads by 53 points.53
Los AngelesRome
Score3386
Tourist attractions within 2 km11126
Park area within 2 km20 hectares172 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Rome leads by 45 points.45
Los AngelesRome
Score5499
Notable places within 2 km881,125
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rome leads by 25 points.25
Los AngelesRome
Score4368
Price level global10064.9
Daily budget—€155
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 16 points.16
Los AngelesRome
Score8771
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 24.7 °C12 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 76 mm21 mm to 114 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
Rome
12
13
16
18
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Rome
15
14
14
15
18
22
25
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Rome
67
69
57
75
62
33
21
38
70
97
114
103
Daylight, hours per day
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Rome
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Los Angeles
No sunshine record
Rome
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
4
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). Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLos AngelesRome
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 25 m
€600-640
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
2 h 0 m
€91-122
FCO · 23 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
8 h 45 m
€446-597
FCO · 23 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 20 m
€76-143
1 stop
FCO · 23 km
MadridMAD
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 15 m
€98-119
FCO · 23 km
San FranciscoSFO
1 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
BarcelonaBCN
12 h 5 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 40 m
€44-74
FCO · 23 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 0 m
€785-892
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
12 h 20 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
2 h 30 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 25 m
€964-1015
LAX · 19 km
5 h 45 m
€270-340
FCO · 23 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
3 h 35 m
€261-303
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
12 h 40 m
no fares
FCO · 23 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 AngelesRome
Official language–Italian
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 m21 m
Main airportLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinationsRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre230 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos AngelesRome
City population3,898,7472,748,109
People per km²2,9942,135
Museums within 10 km38177
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km17
Distinct cuisines in the centre4665
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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.