VacationSelector

Cologne or Las Vegas?

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

Your match

Cologne
✓ Best match
57
match

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

Las Vegas
45
match

Wins on 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.

CologneLas Vegas
Beaches & swimming. Cologne and Las Vegas are level on 0.
CologneLas Vegas
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km400
Coast distance256 km372 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Cologne leads by 10 points.10
CologneLas Vegas
Score7262
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,142915
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3524
Museums & heritage. Cologne leads by 41 points.41
CologneLas Vegas
Score6019
Museums within 10 km4724
Museums within 2 km of centre274
Share of museums within 2 km %5717
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Cologne leads by 6 points.6
CologneLas Vegas
Score6458
Drinking venues within 4 km1,107793
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre727485
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6661
Nightclubs within 4 km9090
Nature & day trips. Cologne leads by 8 points.8
CologneLas Vegas
Score7163
Protected land share 50 km %5350
Landscape blanket share 50 km %520
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km118 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Cologne leads by 38 points.38
CologneLas Vegas
Score7234
Tourist attractions within 2 km4319
Park area within 2 km118 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km64
Sights concentration. Cologne leads by 2 points.2
CologneLas Vegas
Score5351
Notable places within 2 km8175
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cologne leads by 17 points.17
CologneLas Vegas
Score6043
Price level global75.9100
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Las Vegas leads by 12 points.12
CologneLas Vegas
Score6072
Monthly daytime high6.3 °C to 25 °C13.9 °C to 40.3 °C
Monthly rainfall48 mm to 81 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
Cologne
6
7
12
16
20
23
25
25
21
15
10
7
Las Vegas
15
17
22
26
32
38
40
39
35
27
20
14
Rainfall, mm
Cologne
64
56
53
48
60
76
81
81
67
65
68
72
Las Vegas
14
21
11
5
2
1
9
8
8
8
8
11
Daylight, hours per day
Cologne
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Las Vegas
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Cologne
2
2
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
3
2
1
Las Vegas
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cologne: 1991-2020 normals, Köln-Stammheim (5.4 km from centre). Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCologneLas Vegas
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
55 m
no fares
DUS · 41 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 30 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 10 m
€174-186
1 stop
CGN · 15 km
11 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 2026-09 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

MeasureCologneLas Vegas
Official languageGerman
CurrencyEuro (EUR)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
Elevation59 m610 m
Main airportCologne Bonn Airport (CGN)15 km from centre113 non-stop destinationsHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCologneLas Vegas
City population1,024,621641,903
People per km²2,5301,843
Museums within 10 km4021
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre8449

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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.