VacationSelector

Los Angeles or West Palm Beach?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Los Angeles
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
42
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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 AngelesWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 59 points.59
Los AngelesWest Palm Beach
Score2988
Beaches 25 km11
Beaches 10 km010
Swim season months012
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Coast distance0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Los Angeles leads by 29 points.29
Los AngelesWest Palm Beach
Score6637
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,337262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2214
Museums & heritage. Los Angeles leads by 32 points.32
Los AngelesWest Palm Beach
Score4917
Museums within 10 km695
Museums within 2 km of centre233
Share of museums within 2 km %3360
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Los Angeles leads by 34 points.34
Los AngelesWest Palm Beach
Score5420
Drinking venues within 4 km660132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre43290
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6568
Nightclubs within 4 km6410
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 7 points.7
Los AngelesWest Palm Beach
Score6269
Protected land share 50 km %2615
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8045
Park area within 2 km20 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Los Angeles leads by 12 points.12
Los AngelesWest Palm Beach
Score3321
Tourist attractions within 2 km113
Park area within 2 km20 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Los Angeles leads by 42 points.42
Los AngelesWest Palm Beach
Score5412
Notable places within 2 km888
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Los Angeles and West Palm Beach are level on 43.
Los AngelesWest Palm Beach
Score4343
Price level global100100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 12 points.12
Los AngelesWest Palm Beach
Score8775
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 24.7 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 76 mm67 mm to 217 mm
Dry months80
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
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11

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). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLos AngelesWest Palm Beach
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
San FranciscoSFO
1 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
5 h 35 m
€349-373
2 stops
FLL · 72 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
5 h 0 m
€196-293
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
4 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
4 h 20 m
€288
LAX · 19 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
Las VegasLAS
1 h 5 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
FLL · 72 km
PhoenixPHX, AZA
1 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
FLL · 72 km
MadridMAD
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
3 h 35 m
€261-303
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
3 h 5 m
€278-290
MIA · 105 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 25 m
€964-1015
LAX · 19 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 105 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 AngelesWest Palm Beach
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation106 m6 m
Main airportLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos AngelesWest Palm Beach
City population3,898,747117,415
People per km²2,994786
Museums within 10 km384
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre4618
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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. 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.