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Pulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon, Bath
BathPulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon
The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign, Las Vegas
Las VegasThe Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign

Photos: Bath by Lucas Carlini, Pexels License; Las Vegas by Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bath 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 Bath for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • wellness

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

Choose Las Vegas for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

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. Bath and Las Vegas are level on 10.
Food & drink. Bath 44, Las Vegas 68: Las Vegas leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Bath 68, Las Vegas 25: Bath leads by 43 points.
Nightlife. Bath 30, Las Vegas 88: Las Vegas leads by 58 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bath 58, Las Vegas 68: Las Vegas leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Bath 80, Las Vegas 25: Bath leads by 55 points.
Good for families. Bath 50, Las Vegas 25: Bath leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Bath 72, Las Vegas 38: Bath leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Bath 54, Las Vegas 64: Las Vegas leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Bath 27, Las Vegas 35: Las Vegas leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bath 44, Las Vegas 78: Las Vegas leads by 34 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bath 78, Las Vegas 40: Bath leads by 38 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bath and Las Vegas.

Your match

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

Bath
Best match
51match

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.

Bath in July

21 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
62 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
16 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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Where the figures come from

Bath's temperatures are measured 29 km from the centre, at Lyneham.

Bath 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBathLas Vegas
Official languageEnglish-
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation132 m610 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre117 non-stop destinationsHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathLas Vegas
City population94,092641,903
People per km²3,2451,843
Museums within 10 km1721
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. 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.