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The Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel, Amman
AmmanThe Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel
The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign, Las Vegas
Las VegasThe Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign

Photos: Amman by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Las Vegas by Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Amman or Las Vegas?

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 Amman for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Amman’s own page.

Choose Las Vegas for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Las Vegas’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. Amman 22, Las Vegas 10: Amman leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Amman 62, Las Vegas 68: Las Vegas leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Amman 54, Las Vegas 25: Amman leads by 29 points.
Nightlife. Amman 32, Las Vegas 88: Las Vegas leads by 56 points.
Nature & outdoors. Amman 45, Las Vegas 68: Las Vegas leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Amman 80, Las Vegas 25: Amman leads by 55 points.
Good for families. Amman 38, Las Vegas 25: Amman leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Amman 30, Las Vegas 38: Las Vegas leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Amman 42, Las Vegas 64: Las Vegas leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Amman 58, Las Vegas 35: Amman leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Amman 27, Las Vegas 78: Las Vegas leads by 51 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Amman 55, Las Vegas 40: Amman leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Amman and Las Vegas.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Amman
45match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights with your weighting.

Las Vegas
47match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Amman in July

33 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
14 hdaylight a day

Las Vegas in July

40 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
9 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Amman 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.

Amman's sunshine is measured 55 km from the centre, at Mafraq.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amman: 1994-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Amman Airport (6 km from centre). Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAmmanLas Vegas
Official languageArabic-
CurrencyJordanian Dinar (JOD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsBCFGJ230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation776 m610 m
Main airportQueen Alia International Airport (AMM)26 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmmanLas Vegas
City population4,007,526641,903
People per km²2,3851,843
Museums within 10 km821
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.