Baden-Baden or Las Vegas?
Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

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What matters to you?
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Scoreboard
Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.
What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baden-Baden and Las Vegas.
When should you go?
Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.
| July | Baden-Baden | Las Vegas |
|---|---|---|
| Daytime high | 25 °C | 40 °C |
| Night-time low | 14 °C | 27 °C |
| Rainfall in the month | 117 mm | 9 mm |
| Sunshine | 8 hours a day | No figure |
| Daylight | 16 hours a day | 14 hours a day |
The whole year
Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.
Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Baden-Baden: 1991-2020 normals, Baden-Baden-Geroldsau (3.9 km from centre). Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre).
Getting there
| Flying from | Baden-Baden | Las Vegas |
|---|---|---|
| Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY | 11 h 40 m no fares FRA · 143 km | 1 h 5 m €76-164 LAS · 4 km |
| LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2 | 1 h 30 m no fares FKB · 12 km | 10 h 35 m no fares LAS · 4 km |
| ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1 | 8 h 50 m no fares FRA · 143 km | 3 h 30 m €171-225 LAS · 4 km |
| AtlantaATL, PDK | 9 h 30 m no fares STR · 72 km | 4 h 0 m no fares LAS · 4 km |
| New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA | 7 h 55 m €537-713 FRA · 143 km | 4 h 55 m €242-269 LAS · 4 km |
| WashingtonIAD, DCA | 8 h 20 m €656-803 2 stops FRA · 143 km | 4 h 35 m €230-263 1 stop LAS · 4 km |
| San FranciscoSFO | 11 h 25 m €628-763 1 stop FRA · 143 km | 1 h 25 m €91-219 LAS · 4 km |
| DallasDFW, DAL, AFW | 10 h 25 m no fares FRA · 143 km | 2 h 40 m €154-209 LAS · 4 km |
| Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC | 11 h 55 m no fares FRA · 143 km | 3 h 30 m no fares LAS · 4 km |
| SeoulICN, GMP | 10 h 45 m €490-632 1 stop FRA · 143 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
| Measure | Baden-Baden | Las Vegas |
|---|---|---|
| Official language | German | - |
| Currency | Euro (EUR) | US Dollar (USD) |
| Sockets | CF230 V, 50 Hz | AB120 V, 60 Hz |
| Driving side | Right | Right |
| Time zone | UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer | UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer |
| Emergency number | 112 | 911 |
| Elevation | 181 m | 610 m |
| Main airport | Karlsruhe Baden-Baden Airport (FKB)12 km from centre43 non-stop destinations | Harry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinations |
| Public holidays this year | 12 days | 11 days |
By the numbers
| Measure | Baden-Baden | Las Vegas |
|---|---|---|
| City population | 56,952 | 641,903 |
| People per km² | 406 | 1,843 |
| Museums within 10 km | 11 | 21 |
| UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km | 2 | 0 |
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