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The Sagrada Família, Barcelona
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The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign, Las Vegas
Las VegasThe Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign

Photos: Barcelona by Canaan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Las Vegas by Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Barcelona 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 Barcelona for

  • beaches
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

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

Choose Las Vegas for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • wellness

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. Barcelona 75, Las Vegas 10: Barcelona leads by 65 points.
Food & drink. Barcelona 82, Las Vegas 68: Barcelona leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Barcelona 86, Las Vegas 25: Barcelona leads by 61 points.
Nightlife. Barcelona 82, Las Vegas 88: Las Vegas leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Barcelona 72, Las Vegas 68: Barcelona leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Barcelona 80, Las Vegas 25: Barcelona leads by 55 points.
Good for families. Barcelona 76, Las Vegas 25: Barcelona leads by 51 points.
Getting around. Barcelona 80, Las Vegas 38: Barcelona leads by 42 points.
Shopping & style. Barcelona 75, Las Vegas 64: Barcelona leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Barcelona 44, Las Vegas 35: Barcelona leads by 9 points.
Live music & performing arts. Barcelona 70, Las Vegas 78: Las Vegas leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Barcelona 38, Las Vegas 40: Las Vegas leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Barcelona and Las Vegas.

Your match

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

Barcelona
Best match
72match

Wins on beaches and culture and sights with your weighting.

Las Vegas
47match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Barcelona in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Las Vegas in July

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

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Barcelona: 1991-2020 normals, Barcelona / Aeropuerto (14.4 km from centre). Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBarcelonaLas Vegas
Official languageSpanish-
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 number112911
Elevation9 m610 m
Main airportJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN)13 km from centre235 non-stop destinationsHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarcelonaLas Vegas
City population1,731,649641,903
People per km²17,0941,843
Museums within 10 km9521
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months-

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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. 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.

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.