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Korenlei reflected in the Leie, Ghent
GhentKorenlei reflected in the Leie
The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign, Las Vegas
Las VegasThe Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign

Photos: Ghent by ykeiko, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Las Vegas by Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Ghent or Las Vegas?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Ghent for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Ghent’s own page.

Choose Las Vegas for

  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Las Vegas’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Ghent 25, Las Vegas 10: Ghent leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Ghent 62, Las Vegas 68: Las Vegas leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Ghent 72, Las Vegas 25: Ghent leads by 47 points.
Nightlife. Ghent 55, Las Vegas 88: Las Vegas leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Ghent 35, Las Vegas 68: Las Vegas leads by 33 points.
Day trips. Ghent 88, Las Vegas 25: Ghent leads by 63 points.
Good for families. Ghent 50, Las Vegas 25: Ghent leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Ghent 78, Las Vegas 38: Ghent leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Ghent 50, Las Vegas 64: Las Vegas leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Ghent 38, Las Vegas 35: Ghent leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Ghent 60, Las Vegas 78: Las Vegas leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Ghent 33, Las Vegas 40: Las Vegas leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Ghent and Las Vegas.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Ghent
Best match
54match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights with your weighting.

Las Vegas
47match

Wins on nightlife and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Ghent in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
77 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Las Vegas in July

40 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
9 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Ghent has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Ghent's sunshine is measured 45 km from the centre, at Vlissingen.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Ghent: 2009-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Melle / Kalverhaag (10.1 km from centre). Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGhentLas Vegas
Official languageFrench, German, Dutch-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation12 m610 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureGhentLas Vegas
City population272,657641,903
People per km²1,7281,843
Museums within 10 km3021
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.