VacationSelector

Amsterdam or Las Vegas?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Amsterdam
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on museums & heritage and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Las Vegas
45
match

Wins on year-round weather and nature & day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AmsterdamLas Vegas
Beaches & swimming. Amsterdam leads by 40 points.40
AmsterdamLas Vegas
Score400
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km330
Coast distance24 km372 km
Water distance24 km
Places to eat. Amsterdam leads by 21 points.21
AmsterdamLas Vegas
Score8362
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,957915
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4424
Museums & heritage. Amsterdam leads by 61 points.61
AmsterdamLas Vegas
Score8019
Museums within 10 km9824
Museums within 2 km of centre694
Share of museums within 2 km %7017
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Amsterdam leads by 12 points.12
AmsterdamLas Vegas
Score7058
Drinking venues within 4 km1,543793
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,078485
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7061
Nightclubs within 4 km11490
Nature & day trips. Las Vegas leads by 3 points.3
AmsterdamLas Vegas
Score6063
Protected land share 50 km %2150
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %82100
Park area within 2 km49 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Amsterdam leads by 34 points.34
AmsterdamLas Vegas
Score6834
Tourist attractions within 2 km7419
Park area within 2 km49 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km34
Sights concentration. Amsterdam leads by 17 points.17
AmsterdamLas Vegas
Score6851
Notable places within 2 km19675
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Amsterdam leads by 15 points.15
AmsterdamLas Vegas
Score5843
Price level global79.2100
Daily budget€181
Year-round weather. Las Vegas leads by 15 points.15
AmsterdamLas Vegas
Score5772
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.1 °C13.9 °C to 40.3 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm1 mm to 21 mm
Dry months012
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Amsterdam
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Las Vegas
15
17
22
26
32
38
40
39
35
27
20
14
Sea temperature, °C
Amsterdam
6
5
6
8
12
15
17
19
17
15
11
8
Las Vegas
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Amsterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Las Vegas
14
21
11
5
2
1
9
8
8
8
8
11
Daylight, hours per day
Amsterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Las Vegas
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Amsterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Las Vegas
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amsterdam: 1991-2020 normals, De Bilt (35.3 km from centre). Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAmsterdamLas Vegas
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€93-112
AMS · 12 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
1 h 5 m
€76-164
LAS · 4 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
4 h 55 m
€242-269
LAS · 4 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
8 h 25 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
3 h 30 m
€171-225
LAS · 4 km
San DiegoSAN, CLD
11 h 15 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
1 h 10 m
€90-110
LAS · 4 km
DetroitDTW, DET, YIP
8 h 5 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 45 m
€458-478
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
4 h 20 m
€261-438
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
11 h 30 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, 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 to both. 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. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 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

MeasureAmsterdamLas Vegas
Official languageDutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911911
Elevation-2 m610 m
Main airportAmsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)12 km from centre287 non-stop destinationsHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmsterdamLas Vegas
City population921,468641,903
People per km²4,2081,843
Museums within 10 km10121
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre9849
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.