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The Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles
Los AngelesThe Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier
Skiers in front of the big timber lodge at the resort, Winter Park, Colorado
Winter Park, ColoradoSkiers in front of the big timber lodge at the resort

Photos: Los Angeles by Domenico Convertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Winter Park, Colorado by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Los Angeles or Winter Park, Colorado?

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 Winter Park, Colorado for

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Winter Park, Colorado’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, Winter Park, Colorado 5: Los Angeles leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Los Angeles 84, Winter Park, Colorado 24: Los Angeles leads by 60 points.
Culture & sights. Los Angeles 66, Winter Park, Colorado 6: Los Angeles leads by 60 points.
Nightlife. Los Angeles 67, Winter Park, Colorado 15: Los Angeles leads by 52 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Angeles 80, Winter Park, Colorado 88: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Los Angeles 60, Winter Park, Colorado 38: Los Angeles leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Los Angeles 84, Winter Park, Colorado 62: Los Angeles leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Los Angeles 25, Winter Park, Colorado 42: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Los Angeles 80, Winter Park, Colorado 12: Los Angeles leads by 68 points.
Affordability. Los Angeles 24, Winter Park, Colorado 25: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 1 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Angeles 83, Winter Park, Colorado 12: Los Angeles leads by 71 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Angeles 60, Winter Park, Colorado 46: Los Angeles leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Angeles and Winter Park, Colorado.

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.

Winter Park, Colorado
31match

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

Winter Park, Colorado in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
No seasea
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

Winter Park, Colorado's temperatures are measured 90 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Winter Park, Colorado's station stands 269 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Winter Park, Colorado 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre). Winter Park, Colorado: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (89.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos AngelesWinter Park, Colorado
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation106 m2,759 m
Main airportLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre177 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)95 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos AngelesWinter Park, Colorado
City population3,898,7471,033
People per km²2,99424
Museums within 10 km390
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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.