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The Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles
Los AngelesThe Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Los Angeles by Domenico Convertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Los Angeles or Stockholm?

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
  • food and drink
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Stockholm for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Stockholm’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, Stockholm 40: Los Angeles leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Los Angeles 84, Stockholm 64: Los Angeles leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Los Angeles 66, Stockholm 77: Stockholm leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Los Angeles 67, Stockholm 57: Los Angeles leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Angeles 80, Stockholm 72: Los Angeles leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Los Angeles 60, Stockholm 68: Stockholm leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Los Angeles 84, Stockholm 82: Los Angeles leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Los Angeles 25, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 59 points.
Shopping & style. Los Angeles 80, Stockholm 70: Los Angeles leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Los Angeles 24, Stockholm 30: Stockholm leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Angeles 83, Stockholm 65: Los Angeles leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Angeles 60, Stockholm 56: Los Angeles leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Angeles and Stockholm.

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 beaches and food and drink with your weighting.

Stockholm
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

Stockholm in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
65 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Stockholm has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Stockholm's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Stockholm Observatoriet.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre). Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos AngelesStockholm
Official language-Swedish
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 centre177 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 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 km39266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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. 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.

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.