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The Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles
Los AngelesThe Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier
The Colosseum, Rome
RomeThe Colosseum

Photos: Los Angeles by Domenico Convertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Rome by Tournasol7, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Los Angeles or Rome?

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

  • families
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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

Choose Rome for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Rome’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, Rome 50: Los Angeles leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Los Angeles 84, Rome 82: Los Angeles leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Los Angeles 66, Rome 99: Rome leads by 33 points.
Nightlife. Los Angeles 67, Rome 58: Los Angeles leads by 9 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Angeles 80, Rome 58: Los Angeles leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Los Angeles 60, Rome 92: Rome leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Los Angeles 84, Rome 50: Los Angeles leads by 34 points.
Getting around. Los Angeles 25, Rome 60: Rome leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. Los Angeles 80, Rome 72: Los Angeles leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Los Angeles 24, Rome 38: Rome leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Angeles 83, Rome 68: Los Angeles leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Angeles 60, Rome 40: Los Angeles leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Angeles and Rome.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Los Angeles
64match

Wins on families and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Rome
64match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights 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

Rome in July

31 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
21 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Rome's sunshine is measured 31 km from the centre, at Vigna Di Valle.

Temperature and rainfall are 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).

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 centre177 non-stop destinationsRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre242 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 km39178
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km17
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 months

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. 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.

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.