THE SIGHTS
- Hollywood Sign & Griffith Observatory
- Santa Monica Pier & the beaches
- Venice Beach boardwalk
- The Getty Center & Getty Villa
- Kia Forum (next door in Inglewood)
- Intuit Dome (Inglewood's basketball arena)
A 2020-built spaceship: the largest translucent ETFE canopy in sport spans the whole bowl, open at the sides to the cool Pacific air - and for 2026 the usual artificial carpet gives way to a living hybrid lawn.
Co-hosts the United States open their Group D campaign against Paraguay - one of the host nation's group-stage matches staged on the West Coast.
Iran face New Zealand in a Group G fixture - one of five group-stage matches the stadium hosts before its three knockout fixtures.
Switzerland meet Bosnia and Herzegovina in Group B - an early-afternoon kick-off under the translucent canopy.
Belgium take on Iran in the second of the venue's Group G fixtures.
Türkiye face co-hosts the United States in the final Group D round - the last of the stadium's five group-stage matches before the knockout rounds.
The biggest crowd the stadium has held was a concert, not a sporting event - the expandable bowl swelled past 80,000 for Ed Sheeran, well beyond its 70,240 football capacity.
The Metro K Line serves Inglewood, with a people-mover link and shuttle network feeding the stadium; freeways and ride-hailing fill the rest in a famously car-dependent city.
Traveller's tip: in Los Angeles the car is king - leave huge margins for traffic, or lean on the expanding Metro rail rather than the gridlocked freeways.
Inglewood sits in a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb) on the Los Angeles coastal plain: dry, rain-free summers tempered by the cool Pacific. June is famous for "June Gloom" - grey marine-layer cloud that burns off to mild, dry afternoons.
A newcomer to the World Cup stage, this Inglewood spaceship leads not with history but with engineering: the largest translucent canopy in the game, open at the sides to the Pacific air. For 2026 it swaps its artificial carpet for a living hybrid lawn flown in on a raised tray. Eight matches - five in the group stage, three in the knockouts, two of them the hosts' - a brand-new bowl writing its first football chapters.