VacationSelector

Los Angeles or Venice?

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 places to eat with your weighting.

Venice
✓ Best match
57
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 AngelesVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 40 points.40
Los AngelesVenice
Score2969
Beaches 25 km11
Beaches 10 km020
Swim season months04
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Coast distance4 km
Water distance4 km
Places to eat. Los Angeles leads by 21 points.21
Los AngelesVenice
Score6645
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,337750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2210
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 23 points.23
Los AngelesVenice
Score4972
Museums within 10 km6957
Museums within 2 km of centre2345
Share of museums within 2 km %3379
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Los Angeles leads by 19 points.19
Los AngelesVenice
Score5435
Drinking venues within 4 km660342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre432306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6589
Nightclubs within 4 km643
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 45 points.45
Los AngelesVenice
Score6217
Protected land share 50 km %264
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8070
Park area within 2 km20 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Venice leads by 24 points.24
Los AngelesVenice
Score3357
Tourist attractions within 2 km1172
Park area within 2 km20 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 29 points.29
Los AngelesVenice
Score5483
Notable places within 2 km88464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Venice leads by 25 points.25
Los AngelesVenice
Score4368
Price level global10064.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 21 points.21
Los AngelesVenice
Score8766
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 24.7 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 76 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months82
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
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Los Angeles
No sunshine record
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
3

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). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLos AngelesVenice
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 25 m
€600-640
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 7 km
MadridMAD
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
12 h 5 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 45 m
€41-56
VCE · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 10 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 10 m
€81-119
VCE · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 25 m
€964-1015
LAX · 19 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 7 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
12 h 30 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
CancunCUN
4 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 113 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 AngelesVenice
Official languageItalian
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 m2 m
Main airportLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos AngelesVenice
City population3,898,747250,369
People per km²2,994602
Museums within 10 km3852
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre4646
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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.