VacationSelector

Cardiff or Las Vegas?

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

Your match

Cardiff
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Las Vegas
45
match

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

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

CardiffLas Vegas
Beaches & swimming. Cardiff leads by 46 points.46
CardiffLas Vegas
Score460
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km80
Coast distance2 km372 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Las Vegas leads by 2 points.2
CardiffLas Vegas
Score6062
Restaurants within 2 km of centre541915
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3224
Museums & heritage. Cardiff leads by 20 points.20
CardiffLas Vegas
Score3919
Museums within 10 km6124
Museums within 2 km of centre64
Share of museums within 2 km %1017
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Las Vegas leads by 10 points.10
CardiffLas Vegas
Score4858
Drinking venues within 4 km536793
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre395485
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7461
Nightclubs within 4 km3590
Nature & day trips. Las Vegas leads by 13 points.13
CardiffLas Vegas
Score5063
Protected land share 50 km %1850
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %68100
Park area within 2 km88 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Las Vegas leads by 2 points.2
CardiffLas Vegas
Score3234
Tourist attractions within 2 km419
Park area within 2 km88 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Las Vegas leads by 6 points.6
CardiffLas Vegas
Score4551
Notable places within 2 km5175
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cardiff leads by 11 points.11
CardiffLas Vegas
Score5443
Price level global84.9100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Las Vegas leads by 18 points.18
CardiffLas Vegas
Score5472
Monthly daytime high7.7 °C to 20.2 °C13.9 °C to 40.3 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm1 mm to 21 mm
Dry months012
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
Cardiff
8
8
10
13
16
18
20
20
18
14
11
9
Las Vegas
15
17
22
26
32
38
40
39
35
27
20
14
Sea temperature, °C
Cardiff
8
7
8
9
12
15
17
18
17
15
12
9
Las Vegas
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cardiff
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Las Vegas
14
21
11
5
2
1
9
8
8
8
8
11
Daylight, hours per day
Cardiff
8
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
Sunshine, hours per day
Cardiff
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Las Vegas
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre). Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCardiffLas Vegas
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 10 m
no fares
CWL · 15 km
4 h 20 m
€261-438
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 45 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
no fares
CWL · 15 km
10 h 45 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 2026-10, 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

MeasureCardiffLas 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
Elevation41 m610 m
Main airportCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCardiffLas Vegas
City population383,536641,903
People per km²2,7341,843
Museums within 10 km921
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre5549
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. 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. 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.