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The Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles
Los AngelesThe Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier
The Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal, Venice
VeniceThe Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal

Photos: Los Angeles by Domenico Convertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Venice by David Vives, Pexels License.

Los Angeles or Venice?

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

  • nightlife
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Venice for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Venice’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, Venice 56: Los Angeles leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Los Angeles 84, Venice 60: Los Angeles leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Los Angeles 66, Venice 94: Venice leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Los Angeles 67, Venice 27: Los Angeles leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Angeles 80, Venice 45: Los Angeles leads by 35 points.
Day trips. Los Angeles 60, Venice 86: Venice leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Los Angeles 84, Venice 45: Los Angeles leads by 39 points.
Getting around. Los Angeles 25, Venice 68: Venice leads by 43 points.
Shopping & style. Los Angeles 80, Venice 57: Los Angeles leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Los Angeles 24, Venice 20: Los Angeles leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Angeles 83, Venice 62: Los Angeles leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Angeles 60, Venice 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 Venice.

Your match

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

Los Angeles
Best match
64match

Wins on nightlife and families with your weighting.

Venice
55match

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

Venice in July

29 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
61 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
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

Venice 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.

Venice's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Treviso / S. Angelo.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Venezia / Tessera (6.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos AngelesVenice
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 m2 m
Main airportLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre177 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre103 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 km3952
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 months

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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.