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The Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles
Los AngelesThe Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier
The Arctic Cathedral, Tromso
TromsoThe Arctic Cathedral

Photos: Los Angeles by Domenico Convertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Tromso by Moyan Brenn, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Los Angeles or Tromso?

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

  • shopping
  • beaches
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Tromso for

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Tromso’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, Tromso 8: Los Angeles leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Los Angeles 84, Tromso 36: Los Angeles leads by 48 points.
Culture & sights. Los Angeles 66, Tromso 27: Los Angeles leads by 39 points.
Nightlife. Los Angeles 67, Tromso 38: Los Angeles leads by 29 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Angeles 80, Tromso 92: Tromso leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Los Angeles 60, Tromso 14: Los Angeles leads by 46 points.
Good for families. Los Angeles 84, Tromso 45: Los Angeles leads by 39 points.
Getting around. Los Angeles 25, Tromso 60: Tromso leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. Los Angeles 80, Tromso 15: Los Angeles leads by 65 points.
Affordability. Los Angeles 24, Tromso 11: Los Angeles leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Angeles 83, Tromso 32: Los Angeles leads by 51 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Angeles 60, Tromso 38: Los Angeles leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Angeles and Tromso.

Your match

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

Los Angeles
Best match
64match

Wins on shopping and beaches with your weighting.

Tromso
35match

Wins on getting around and nature and the outdoors 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

Tromso in July

16 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
73 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
10 °Csea
24 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Los AngelesTromso

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos AngelesTromso
Official language-Norwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation106 m20 m
Main airportLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre177 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre49 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos AngelesTromso
City population3,898,74779,943
People per km²2,99432
Museums within 10 km398
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.