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Bologna or Las Vegas?

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

Your match

Bologna
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money with your weighting.

Las Vegas
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips and nightlife 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.

BolognaLas Vegas
Beaches & swimming. Bologna and Las Vegas are level on 0.
BolognaLas Vegas
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km20
Coast distance74 km372 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Las Vegas leads by 4 points.4
BolognaLas Vegas
Score5862
Restaurants within 2 km of centre822915
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2024
Museums & heritage. Bologna leads by 48 points.48
BolognaLas Vegas
Score6719
Museums within 10 km5824
Museums within 2 km of centre434
Share of museums within 2 km %7417
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Las Vegas leads by 5 points.5
BolognaLas Vegas
Score5358
Drinking venues within 4 km720793
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre531485
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7461
Nightclubs within 4 km3090
Nature & day trips. Las Vegas leads by 24 points.24
BolognaLas Vegas
Score3963
Protected land share 50 km %750
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km119 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Bologna leads by 21 points.21
BolognaLas Vegas
Score5534
Tourist attractions within 2 km3219
Park area within 2 km119 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Bologna leads by 9 points.9
BolognaLas Vegas
Score6051
Notable places within 2 km12075
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bologna leads by 25 points.25
BolognaLas Vegas
Score6843
Price level global64.9100
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Las Vegas leads by 5 points.5
BolognaLas Vegas
Score6772
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 31.5 °C13.9 °C to 40.3 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 75 mm1 mm to 21 mm
Dry months512
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
Bologna
7
10
15
19
24
29
32
32
26
19
13
8
Las Vegas
15
17
22
26
32
38
40
39
35
27
20
14
Rainfall, mm
Bologna
36
36
49
54
50
37
34
40
75
75
70
58
Las Vegas
14
21
11
5
2
1
9
8
8
8
8
11
Daylight, hours per day
Bologna
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Las Vegas
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bologna
3
4
6
7
8
10
11
10
7
5
3
3
Las Vegas
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 km from centre). Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBolognaLas Vegas
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€114-267
BLQ · 6 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 138 km
4 h 55 m
€242-269
LAS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€158-262
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 138 km
4 h 35 m
€230-263
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
11 h 0 m
no fares
VCE · 138 km
2 h 40 m
€154-209
LAS · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 45 m
no fares
VCE · 138 km
4 h 20 m
€261-438
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 138 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
CancunCUN
11 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 106 km
4 h 25 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureBolognaLas Vegas
Official languageItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation54 m610 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre97 non-stop destinationsHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaLas Vegas
City population387,971641,903
People per km²2,7541,843
Museums within 10 km6621
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre6249

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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. 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.