VacationSelector

Dublin or Las Vegas?

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

Your match

Dublin
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage 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.

DublinLas Vegas
Beaches & swimming. Dublin leads by 49 points.49
DublinLas Vegas
Score490
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km110
Coast distance3 km372 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Dublin leads by 8 points.8
DublinLas Vegas
Score7062
Restaurants within 2 km of centre920915
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3724
Museums & heritage. Dublin leads by 36 points.36
DublinLas Vegas
Score5519
Museums within 10 km4724
Museums within 2 km of centre374
Share of museums within 2 km %7917
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Dublin leads by 6 points.6
DublinLas Vegas
Score6458
Drinking venues within 4 km1,239793
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre934485
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7561
Nightclubs within 4 km4090
Nature & day trips. Las Vegas leads by 37 points.37
DublinLas Vegas
Score2663
Protected land share 50 km %350
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %62100
Park area within 2 km43 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Dublin leads by 20 points.20
DublinLas Vegas
Score5434
Tourist attractions within 2 km4119
Park area within 2 km43 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Dublin leads by 11 points.11
DublinLas Vegas
Score6251
Notable places within 2 km14175
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dublin leads by 14 points.14
DublinLas Vegas
Score5743
Price level global80.2100
Daily budget€187
Year-round weather. Las Vegas leads by 18 points.18
DublinLas Vegas
Score5472
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 19.5 °C13.9 °C to 40.3 °C
Monthly rainfall52 mm to 83 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
Dublin
8
9
10
12
15
18
20
19
17
14
10
8
Las Vegas
15
17
22
26
32
38
40
39
35
27
20
14
Sea temperature, °C
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
Las Vegas
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
Las Vegas
14
21
11
5
2
1
9
8
8
8
8
11
Daylight, hours per day
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Las Vegas
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Dublin
2
3
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
Las Vegas
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre). Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDublinLas Vegas
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
1 h 5 m
€76-164
LAS · 4 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
4 h 55 m
€242-269
LAS · 4 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
7 h 35 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
3 h 30 m
€171-225
LAS · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
€80-139
DUB · 9 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€43-47
DUB · 9 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 0 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
7 h 5 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
4 h 35 m
€230-263
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
6 h 50 m
€449-527
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
4 h 20 m
€261-438
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
CancunCUN
9 h 30 m
no fares
DUB · 9 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 2026-10, 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

MeasureDublinLas Vegas
Official languageEnglish, Irish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation20 m610 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 non-stop destinationsHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinLas Vegas
City population592,713641,903
People per km²5,1541,843
Museums within 10 km4021
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre7449
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). 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.