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The Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles
Los AngelesThe Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier
Angkor Wat beyond the palms of the causeway, Siem Reap
Siem ReapAngkor Wat beyond the palms of the causeway

Photos: Los Angeles by Domenico Convertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Siem Reap by allPhoto Bangkok, Pexels License.

Los Angeles or Siem Reap?

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
  • live music and the arts
  • families

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

Choose Siem Reap for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Siem Reap’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, Siem Reap 5: Los Angeles leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Los Angeles 84, Siem Reap 45: Los Angeles leads by 39 points.
Culture & sights. Los Angeles 66, Siem Reap 88: Siem Reap leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Los Angeles 67, Siem Reap 42: Los Angeles leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Angeles 80, Siem Reap 40: Los Angeles leads by 40 points.
Day trips. Los Angeles 60, Siem Reap 55: Los Angeles leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Los Angeles 84, Siem Reap 35: Los Angeles leads by 49 points.
Getting around. Los Angeles 25, Siem Reap 30: Siem Reap leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Los Angeles 80, Siem Reap 38: Los Angeles leads by 42 points.
Affordability. Los Angeles 24, Siem Reap 88: Siem Reap leads by 64 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Angeles 83, Siem Reap 32: Los Angeles leads by 51 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Angeles and Siem Reap are level on 60.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Angeles and Siem Reap.

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 live music and the arts with your weighting.

Siem Reap
47match

Wins on prices 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
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Siem Reap in July

30 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
197 mmrain in the month
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Los AngelesSiem Reap

Where the figures come from

Siem Reap has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre). Siem Reap: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureLos AngelesSiem Reap
Official language-Khmer
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Riel (KHR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzACG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number911Police 117, ambulance 119, fire 118
Elevation106 m18 m
Main airportLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre177 non-stop destinationsSiem Reap-Angkor International Airport (SAI)39 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos AngelesSiem Reap
City population3,898,747147,866
People per km²2,994-
Museums within 10 km396
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.