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The Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles
Los AngelesThe Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier
Victoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter, Victoria Falls
Victoria FallsVictoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter

Photos: Los Angeles by Domenico Convertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Victoria Falls by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Los Angeles or Victoria Falls?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • shopping
  • food and drink

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

Choose Victoria Falls for

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Victoria Falls’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, Victoria Falls 7: Los Angeles leads by 53 points.
Food & drink. Los Angeles 84, Victoria Falls 24: Los Angeles leads by 60 points.
Culture & sights. Los Angeles 66, Victoria Falls 12: Los Angeles leads by 54 points.
Nightlife. Los Angeles 67, Victoria Falls 8: Los Angeles leads by 59 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Angeles 80, Victoria Falls 94: Victoria Falls leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Los Angeles 60, Victoria Falls 22: Los Angeles leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Los Angeles 84, Victoria Falls 38: Los Angeles leads by 46 points.
Getting around. Los Angeles 25, Victoria Falls 45: Victoria Falls leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Los Angeles 80, Victoria Falls 18: Los Angeles leads by 62 points.
Affordability. Los Angeles 24, Victoria Falls 32: Victoria Falls leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Angeles 83, Victoria Falls 10: Los Angeles leads by 73 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Angeles 60, Victoria Falls 34: Los Angeles leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Angeles and Victoria Falls.

Your match

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

Los Angeles
Best match
64match

Wins on live music and the arts and shopping with your weighting.

Victoria Falls
29match

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
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Victoria Falls in July

26 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Los AngelesVictoria Falls

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre). Victoria Falls: 1991-2020 normals, Livingstone (13.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos AngelesVictoria Falls
Official language-English, Xhosa, Ndau, Venda, Chewa, Khoisan, Kalanga, Shona, Tonga, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Northern Ndebele, Nambya, Zimbabwe Sign Language, Barwe
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Zimbabwe Gold (ZWG)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+2
Emergency number911999
Elevation106 m961 m
Main airportLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre177 non-stop destinationsVictoria Falls International Airport (VFA)18 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos AngelesVictoria Falls
City population3,898,74733,060
People per km²2,994-
Museums within 10 km392
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
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. 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.