Moving to Spain from Los Angeles?

The climate you'd be trading for

Swap Los Angeles for a typical Spanish city and, on the national picture, you're looking at about 4°C colder winters, about twice the rain and about 6°C hotter summers. But "Spain" isn't one climate — it runs from the wet Atlantic northwest to the dry Mediterranean southeast, so the honest answer depends on where:

• Vigo Galicia · Atlantic

  vs Los Angeles: about 4°C colder winters, 1 fewer hour of December daylight and roughly 5× the rain. mild, green and wet — Spain’s Atlantic northwest.

• Alacant Costa Blanca · Mediterranean

  vs Los Angeles: about 2°C colder winters and about 7°C hotter summers. dry, warm and sunny — the Mediterranean southeast.

• Málaga Costa del Sol · Mediterranean

  vs Los Angeles: about 1.5× the rain and about 7°C hotter summers. warm winters on the southern coast.

Climate deltas compare 1991–2020 normals for Los Angeles (Meteostat) against the same 30-year measure for each Spanish anchor. Rounded to whole degrees and bucketed rain ratios on purpose — coarse enough that measurement noise can't flip the direction.

Where Americans actually settle

Not where a magazine says — Spain's own census records the people born in the United States who live here today. Of about 76,180 Americans across all 8,132 municipalities, these 8 hold the most:

Source: INE Censo Anual — residents by country of birth, 2025. Counts, not estimates. Big places top the list simply because they're big; the "per 1,000" column shows concentration. Linked names have a full town profile.

Getting back to Los Angeles

Direct flights home run year-round from 2 Spanish airports:

• Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)
• Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN)

Direct-route map from SpainScore's airport dataset (Spanish-departure scheduled routes). "Getting home easily" is one of the things the quiz can weight for you.