VacationSelector

Edinburgh or Las Vegas?

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

Your match

Edinburgh
✓ Best match
58
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.

EdinburghLas Vegas
Beaches & swimming. Edinburgh leads by 55 points.55
EdinburghLas Vegas
Score550
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km200
Coast distance3 km372 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Edinburgh leads by 8 points.8
EdinburghLas Vegas
Score7062
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,023915
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3524
Museums & heritage. Edinburgh leads by 38 points.38
EdinburghLas Vegas
Score5719
Museums within 10 km3024
Museums within 2 km of centre224
Share of museums within 2 km %7317
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Edinburgh leads by 6 points.6
EdinburghLas Vegas
Score6458
Drinking venues within 4 km1,193793
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre884485
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7461
Nightclubs within 4 km6590
Nature & day trips. Las Vegas leads by 28 points.28
EdinburghLas Vegas
Score3563
Protected land share 50 km %250
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %85100
Park area within 2 km166 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Edinburgh leads by 38 points.38
EdinburghLas Vegas
Score7234
Tourist attractions within 2 km8719
Park area within 2 km166 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Edinburgh leads by 9 points.9
EdinburghLas Vegas
Score6051
Notable places within 2 km12675
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Edinburgh leads by 11 points.11
EdinburghLas Vegas
Score5443
Price level global84.9100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Las Vegas leads by 21 points.21
EdinburghLas Vegas
Score5172
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.8 °C13.9 °C to 40.3 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 80 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
Edinburgh
7
7
9
12
14
17
19
19
17
13
9
7
Las Vegas
15
17
22
26
32
38
40
39
35
27
20
14
Sea temperature, °C
Edinburgh
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Las Vegas
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Edinburgh
62
47
47
43
49
63
65
69
55
80
68
63
Las Vegas
14
21
11
5
2
1
9
8
8
8
8
11
Daylight, hours per day
Edinburgh
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Las Vegas
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Edinburgh
2
3
4
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
3
2
Las Vegas
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre). Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromEdinburghLas Vegas
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€41-45
EDI · 11 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 50 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
4 h 55 m
€242-269
LAS · 4 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
7 h 40 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
3 h 30 m
€171-225
LAS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€78-108
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
7 h 15 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
4 h 35 m
€230-263
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
6 h 55 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
4 h 20 m
€261-438
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
8 h 15 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
OrlandoMCO, SFB, ORL
8 h 30 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
4 h 30 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 10 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
CancunCUN
9 h 40 m
no fares
GLA · 78 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

MeasureEdinburghLas 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
Elevation47 m610 m
Main airportEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre158 non-stop destinationsHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureEdinburghLas Vegas
City population488,050641,903
People per km²1,8841,843
Museums within 10 km3221
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre7849
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.