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The Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles
Los AngelesThe Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier
Castle Square and the Royal Castle, Warsaw
WarsawCastle Square and the Royal Castle

Photos: Los Angeles by Domenico Convertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Warsaw by Raymond Petrik, Pexels License.

Los Angeles or Warsaw?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • shopping

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

Choose Warsaw for

  • getting around
  • prices
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Warsaw’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, Warsaw 12: Los Angeles leads by 48 points.
Food & drink. Los Angeles 84, Warsaw 60: Los Angeles leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Los Angeles 66, Warsaw 70: Warsaw leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Los Angeles 67, Warsaw 66: Los Angeles leads by 1 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Angeles 80, Warsaw 47: Los Angeles leads by 33 points.
Day trips. Los Angeles 60, Warsaw 52: Los Angeles leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Los Angeles 84, Warsaw 62: Los Angeles leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Los Angeles 25, Warsaw 72: Warsaw leads by 47 points.
Shopping & style. Los Angeles 80, Warsaw 55: Los Angeles leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Los Angeles 24, Warsaw 64: Warsaw leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Angeles 83, Warsaw 63: Los Angeles leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Angeles 60, Warsaw 35: Los Angeles leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Angeles and Warsaw.

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 nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Warsaw
55match

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
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Warsaw in July

25 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Los AngelesWarsaw

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos AngelesWarsaw
Official language-Polish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation106 m118 m
Main airportLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre177 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos AngelesWarsaw
City population3,898,7471,862,402
People per km²2,9943,601
Museums within 10 km39117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
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.