VacationSelector

Calgary or Las Vegas?

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

Your match

Calgary
38
match

Wins on value for money and good for families with your weighting.

Las Vegas
✓ Best match
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.

CalgaryLas Vegas
Beaches & swimming. Calgary and Las Vegas are level on 0.
CalgaryLas Vegas
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km40
Coast distance649 km372 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Calgary leads by 4 points.4
CalgaryLas Vegas
Score6662
Restaurants within 2 km of centre749915
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3624
Museums & heritage. Las Vegas leads by 10 points.10
CalgaryLas Vegas
Score919
Museums within 10 km824
Museums within 2 km of centre34
Share of museums within 2 km %3817
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Las Vegas leads by 14 points.14
CalgaryLas Vegas
Score4458
Drinking venues within 4 km465793
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre343485
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7461
Nightclubs within 4 km1990
Nature & day trips. Las Vegas leads by 27 points.27
CalgaryLas Vegas
Score3663
Protected land share 50 km %450
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km142 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Calgary leads by 7 points.7
CalgaryLas Vegas
Score4134
Tourist attractions within 2 km319
Park area within 2 km142 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km54
Sights concentration. Las Vegas leads by 12 points.12
CalgaryLas Vegas
Score3951
Notable places within 2 km3775
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Calgary leads by 11 points.11
CalgaryLas Vegas
Score5443
Price level global84100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Las Vegas leads by 15 points.15
CalgaryLas Vegas
Score5772
Monthly daytime high-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C13.9 °C to 40.3 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 106 mm1 mm to 21 mm
Dry months812
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
Calgary
0
-1
4
11
16
20
25
23
19
12
4
0
Las Vegas
15
17
22
26
32
38
40
39
35
27
20
14
Rainfall, mm
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
Las Vegas
14
21
11
5
2
1
9
8
8
8
8
11
Daylight, hours per day
Calgary
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Las Vegas
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Calgary: 1991-2020 normals, Calgary Int'l CS (8.2 km from centre). Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromCalgaryLas Vegas
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
2 h 55 m
€237-270
1 stop
YYC · 9 km
1 h 5 m
€76-164
LAS · 4 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 50 m
€182-359
1 stop
YYC · 9 km
4 h 20 m
€261-438
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 15 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
3 h 30 m
€171-225
LAS · 4 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
4 h 55 m
€242-269
LAS · 4 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
1 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 20 m
€132-243
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
4 h 10 m
€170-221
YYC · 9 km
4 h 55 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
1 h 30 m
€77-88
1 stop
YYC · 9 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 55 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
5 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 45 m
no fares
YYC · 9 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 2026-09 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

MeasureCalgaryLas Vegas
Official languageFrench, English
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation1,045 m610 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCalgaryLas Vegas
City population1,306,784641,903
People per km²1,5831,843
Museums within 10 km1321
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre6749

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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). 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.