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The Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles
Los AngelesThe Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier
The Basilica of Superga, Turin
TurinThe Basilica of Superga

Photos: Los Angeles by Domenico Convertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Turin by Konstantin Dacosta, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Los Angeles or Turin?

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
  • families
  • shopping

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

Choose Turin for

  • getting around
  • prices
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Turin’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, Turin 12: Los Angeles leads by 48 points.
Food & drink. Los Angeles 84, Turin 81: Los Angeles leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Los Angeles 66, Turin 78: Turin leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Los Angeles 67, Turin 50: Los Angeles leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Angeles and Turin are level on 80.
Day trips. Los Angeles 60, Turin 84: Turin leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Los Angeles 84, Turin 57: Los Angeles leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Los Angeles 25, Turin 68: Turin leads by 43 points.
Shopping & style. Los Angeles 80, Turin 58: Los Angeles leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Los Angeles 24, Turin 58: Turin leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Angeles 83, Turin 65: Los Angeles leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Angeles 60, Turin 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 Turin.

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 families with your weighting.

Turin
61match

Wins on getting around and prices 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

Turin in July

29 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
56 mmrain in the month
No seasea
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

Turin 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre). Turin: 1991-2020 normals, Torino / Caselle (15.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos AngelesTurin
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 m239 m
Main airportLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre177 non-stop destinationsTurin Airport (TRN)14 km from centre65 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos AngelesTurin
City population3,898,747841,600
People per km²2,9946,474
Museums within 10 km3972
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
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. 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.