VacationSelector

Los Angeles or Valencia?

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 nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

Valencia
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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 AngelesValencia
Beaches & swimming. Valencia leads by 38 points.38
Los AngelesValencia
Score2967
Beaches 25 km11
Beaches 10 km012
Swim season months05
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Coast distance3 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Valencia leads by 12 points.12
Los AngelesValencia
Score6678
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,3371,995
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2233
Museums & heritage. Valencia leads by 6 points.6
Los AngelesValencia
Score4955
Museums within 10 km6959
Museums within 2 km of centre2326
Share of museums within 2 km %3344
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Valencia leads by 16 points.16
Los AngelesValencia
Score5470
Drinking venues within 4 km6601,513
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre432957
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6563
Nightclubs within 4 km64108
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 9 points.9
Los AngelesValencia
Score6253
Protected land share 50 km %2610
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8064
Park area within 2 km20 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Valencia leads by 9 points.9
Los AngelesValencia
Score3342
Tourist attractions within 2 km1112
Park area within 2 km20 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Los Angeles leads by 2 points.2
Los AngelesValencia
Score5452
Notable places within 2 km8878
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valencia leads by 28 points.28
Los AngelesValencia
Score4371
Price level global10060.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 3 points.3
Los AngelesValencia
Score8784
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 24.7 °C16.8 °C to 30.6 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 76 mm7 mm to 70 mm
Dry months88
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
Valencia
17
17
19
21
24
28
30
31
28
25
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Valencia
14
14
14
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Valencia
38
30
40
33
36
26
7
15
70
66
52
48
Daylight, hours per day
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Valencia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Los Angeles
No sunshine record
Valencia
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
8
7
6
5

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). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLos AngelesValencia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 15 m
€80-167
VLC · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 25 m
€600-640
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
1 h 55 m
€103-131
VLC · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 10 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 25 m
€155-178
VLC · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 0 m
€70-117
VLC · 9 km
MadridMAD
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 0 m
€69-81
VLC · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 15 m
€128-199
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
13 h 35 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
3 h 35 m
€167-378
VLC · 9 km
LisbonLIS
11 h 25 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 35 m
€56-140
VLC · 9 km
ViennaVIE
12 h 15 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 40 m
€155-215
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 9 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 AngelesValencia
Official languageSpanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation106 m15 m
Main airportLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre107 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos AngelesValencia
City population3,898,747840,792
People per km²2,9946,242
Museums within 10 km3846
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre4692
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 months

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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. 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.