United States
Los Angeles
Match
53
- Beach first53
- Culture first55
- Food & nightlife56
- Family trip50
- Nature first56
- Good weather58
- On a budget52
The nine measures
Each scored 0 to 100 against fixed anchors, so a score means the same thing on every page. Open a row for the figures behind it.
Beaches & swimming. Scores 29 out of 100.29
| Score | 29 |
|---|---|
| Beaches 25 km | 11 |
| Beaches 10 km | 0 |
| Swim season months | 0 |
| Warmest sea temp | 20.2 °C |
| Scoring variant | beachScoreWideRing |
| Declared | 2026-08-25 |
| Register | seed/editorial-overrides.json |
Scored by a declared variant of the beach formula: the beach count reads a 25 km ring, because Santa Monica and Venice Beach lie 20-21 km from the centre, one ring beyond the standard 10 km disc. Eleven beaches are measured there. The swim season is still zero months, because the Pacific's warmest measured month is 20.2 degrees, just under the 21-degree line the season is counted against.
Scored on a declared variant of this axis, recorded in seed/editorial-overrides.json.
Places to eat. Scores 66 out of 100.66
| Score | 66 |
|---|---|
| Restaurants within 2 km of centre | 1,337 |
| Effective number of cuisines within 2 km | 22 |
1337 restaurants within 2 km of the centre, spread across an effective 22 kitchens.
Museums & heritage. Scores 49 out of 100.49
| Score | 49 |
|---|---|
| Museums within 10 km | 69 |
| Museums within 2 km of centre | 23 |
| Share of museums within 2 km % | 33 |
| Unesco sites within 50 km | 1 |
69 museums mapped within 10 km, 33% of them within 2 km of the centre, and 1 whole UNESCO inscription within 50 km.
Nightlife. Scores 54 out of 100.54
| Score | 54 |
|---|---|
| Drinking venues within 4 km | 660 |
| Drinking venues within 2 km of centre | 432 |
| Share of drinking venues within 2 km % | 65 |
| Nightclubs within 4 km | 64 |
660 places to drink within 4 km, 64 nightclubs among them, and 65% of the drinking venues within 2 km of the centre.
Nature & day trips. Scores 62 out of 100.62
| Score | 62 |
|---|---|
| Protected land share 50 km % | 26 |
| Landscape blanket share 50 km % | 0 |
| Land share of disc % | 80 |
| Park area within 2 km | 20 hectares |
26% of the 50 km disc around the city is protected land, and there are 20 hectares of park within 2 km of the centre.
Good for families. Scores 33 out of 100.33
| Score | 33 |
|---|---|
| Tourist attractions within 2 km | 11 |
| Park area within 2 km | 20 hectares |
| Theme parks within 30 km | 2 |
11 tourist attractions within 2 km beside 20 hectares of park, and 2 theme parks within 30 km.
Sights concentration. Scores 54 out of 100.54
| Score | 54 |
|---|---|
| Notable places within 2 km | 88 |
| Min wikipedia languages | 5 |
88 notable places within 2 km of the centre, counting places with a Wikipedia presence in at least five languages.
Value for money. Scores 43 out of 100.43
| Score | 43 |
|---|---|
| Price level global | 100 |
| Daily budget | — |
National price level of 100 against the United States at 100, scored on a fixed scale from 20, the cheapest countries anyone travels to, to 160, the most expensive.
Year-round weather. Scores 87 out of 100.87
| Score | 87 |
|---|---|
| Monthly daytime high | 18.6 °C to 24.7 °C |
| Monthly rainfall | 0 mm to 76 mm |
| Dry months | 8 |
Daytime highs run 19-25 °C across the year, with 8 month(s) at 40 mm of rain or less.
When should you go?
The figures behind each month, shaded against this city's own year: the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest.
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).
Getting there
| Flying from | Los Angeles |
|---|---|
| San FranciscoSFO | 1 h 20 m no fares LAX · 19 km |
| Las VegasLAS | 1 h 5 m no fares LAX · 19 km |
| PhoenixPHX, AZA | 1 h 20 m no fares LAX · 19 km |
| Salt Lake CitySLC | 1 h 45 m no fares LAX · 19 km |
| New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA | 5 h 20 m no fares LAX · 19 km |
| TokyoHND, NRT | 11 h 0 m €785-892 1 stop LAX · 19 km |
| ParisCDG, ORY, BVA | 11 h 25 m €600-640 1 stop LAX · 19 km |
| Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC | 3 h 35 m €261-303 1 stop LAX · 19 km |
| DubaiDXB, DWC | 16 h 25 m €964-1015 LAX · 19 km |
| SeattleSEA, BFI | 2 h 30 m no fares LAX · 19 km |
The busiest departure cities for Los Angeles, 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. 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. 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
| Measure | Los Angeles |
|---|---|
| Currency | US Dollar (USD) |
| Sockets | AB120 V, 60 Hz |
| Driving side | Right |
| Time zone | UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer |
| Emergency number | 911 |
| Elevation | 106 m |
| Main airport | Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinations |
| Public holidays this year | 13 days |
By the numbers
| Measure | Los Angeles |
|---|---|
| City population | 3,898,747 |
| People per km² | 2,994 |
| Museums within 10 km | 38 |
| UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km | 1 |
| Distinct cuisines in the centre | 46 |
| Swim season, months above 21 °C | None |
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