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Budapest or Las Vegas?

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

Your match

Budapest
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families with your weighting.

Las Vegas
45
match

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

BudapestLas Vegas
Beaches & swimming. Budapest and Las Vegas are level on 0.
BudapestLas Vegas
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km60
Coast distance10,000 km372 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Budapest leads by 15 points.15
BudapestLas Vegas
Score7762
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,699915
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3524
Museums & heritage. Budapest leads by 45 points.45
BudapestLas Vegas
Score6419
Museums within 10 km14424
Museums within 2 km of centre644
Share of museums within 2 km %4417
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Budapest leads by 14 points.14
BudapestLas Vegas
Score7258
Drinking venues within 4 km1,765793
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,168485
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6661
Nightclubs within 4 km9790
Nature & day trips. Las Vegas leads by 23 points.23
BudapestLas Vegas
Score4063
Protected land share 50 km %850
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km111 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Budapest leads by 37 points.37
BudapestLas Vegas
Score7134
Tourist attractions within 2 km7519
Park area within 2 km111 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Budapest leads by 18 points.18
BudapestLas Vegas
Score6951
Notable places within 2 km20675
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Budapest leads by 37 points.37
BudapestLas Vegas
Score8043
Price level global48100
Daily budget€104
Year-round weather. Las Vegas leads by 8 points.8
BudapestLas Vegas
Score6472
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 27.9 °C13.9 °C to 40.3 °C
Monthly rainfall27 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
Budapest
4
7
11
17
22
26
27
28
22
16
9
4
Las Vegas
15
17
22
26
32
38
40
39
35
27
20
14
Rainfall, mm
Budapest
29
27
30
37
67
67
75
60
48
41
48
39
Las Vegas
14
21
11
5
2
1
9
8
8
8
8
11
Daylight, hours per day
Budapest
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Las Vegas
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Budapest
2
4
5
7
9
9
10
9
7
5
3
2
Las Vegas
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre). Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBudapestLas Vegas
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€63-91
BUD · 18 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 40 m
€123-153
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€97-114
BUD · 18 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 5 m
€175-230
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
9 h 5 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
4 h 20 m
€261-438
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 15 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 35 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
9 h 5 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
4 h 45 m
€187-299
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 35 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
10 h 15 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBudapestLas Vegas
Official languageHungarian
CurrencyForint (HUF)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
Elevation117 m610 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre155 non-stop destinationsHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestLas Vegas
City population1,685,209641,903
People per km²3,2091,843
Museums within 10 km8121
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre8649

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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). 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. 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.