VacationSelector

Los Angeles or Stockholm?

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 nature & day trips with your weighting.

Stockholm
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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 AngelesStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 31 points.31
Los AngelesStockholm
Score2960
Beaches 25 km11
Beaches 10 km073
Swim season months00
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Coast distance0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 10 points.10
Los AngelesStockholm
Score6676
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,3371,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2236
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 20 points.20
Los AngelesStockholm
Score4969
Museums within 10 km6974
Museums within 2 km of centre2347
Share of museums within 2 km %3364
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Stockholm leads by 10 points.10
Los AngelesStockholm
Score5464
Drinking venues within 4 km6601,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre432689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6563
Nightclubs within 4 km64106
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 21 points.21
Los AngelesStockholm
Score6241
Protected land share 50 km %267
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8077
Park area within 2 km20 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Stockholm leads by 24 points.24
Los AngelesStockholm
Score3357
Tourist attractions within 2 km1123
Park area within 2 km20 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 25 points.25
Los AngelesStockholm
Score5479
Notable places within 2 km88357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Stockholm leads by 14 points.14
Los AngelesStockholm
Score4357
Price level global10080.3
Daily budget€169
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 34 points.34
Los AngelesStockholm
Score8753
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 24.7 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 76 mm27 mm to 66 mm
Dry months85
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
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Los Angeles
No sunshine record
Stockholm
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
6
3
1
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). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLos AngelesStockholm
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
CopenhagenCPH
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 20 m
€84-99
ARN · 36 km
HelsinkiHEL
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 10 m
€66-74
ARN · 36 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 10 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 25 m
€600-640
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 0 m
€785-892
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 5 m
€152-213
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
MunichMUC
12 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 15 m
€202-238
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 25 m
€964-1015
LAX · 19 km
6 h 20 m
€330-429
1 stop
ARN · 36 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 AngelesStockholm
Official languageSwedish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation106 m22 m
Main airportLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos AngelesStockholm
City population3,898,747984,748
People per km²2,9945,260
Museums within 10 km38266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre4681
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.