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Heidelberg or Las Vegas?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Heidelberg
45
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money with your weighting.

Las Vegas
45
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

HeidelbergLas Vegas
Beaches & swimming. Heidelberg and Las Vegas are level on 0.
HeidelbergLas Vegas
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km60
Coast distance406 km372 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Las Vegas leads by 15 points.15
HeidelbergLas Vegas
Score4762
Restaurants within 2 km of centre269915
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2624
Museums & heritage. Heidelberg leads by 40 points.40
HeidelbergLas Vegas
Score5919
Museums within 10 km5424
Museums within 2 km of centre234
Share of museums within 2 km %4317
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Las Vegas leads by 31 points.31
HeidelbergLas Vegas
Score2758
Drinking venues within 4 km201793
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre169485
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8461
Nightclubs within 4 km890
Nature & day trips. Heidelberg leads by 11 points.11
HeidelbergLas Vegas
Score7463
Protected land share 50 km %5250
Landscape blanket share 50 km %220
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km20 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Heidelberg leads by 9 points.9
HeidelbergLas Vegas
Score4334
Tourist attractions within 2 km2919
Park area within 2 km20 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Las Vegas leads by 15 points.15
HeidelbergLas Vegas
Score3651
Notable places within 2 km3175
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Heidelberg leads by 17 points.17
HeidelbergLas Vegas
Score6043
Price level global75.9100
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Las Vegas leads by 11 points.11
HeidelbergLas Vegas
Score6172
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 25.8 °C13.9 °C to 40.3 °C
Monthly rainfall45 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
Heidelberg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Las Vegas
15
17
22
26
32
38
40
39
35
27
20
14
Rainfall, mm
Heidelberg
46
46
53
45
69
66
80
67
56
61
62
64
Las Vegas
14
21
11
5
2
1
9
8
8
8
8
11
Daylight, hours per day
Heidelberg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Las Vegas
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Heidelberg
2
3
4
6
7
7
8
7
6
4
2
1
Las Vegas
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Heidelberg: 1991-2020 normals, Heidelberg (4.5 km from centre). Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHeidelbergLas Vegas
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 40 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
1 h 5 m
€76-164
LAS · 4 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 69 km
4 h 55 m
€242-269
LAS · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 69 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
8 h 50 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
3 h 30 m
€171-225
LAS · 4 km
San FranciscoSFO
11 h 25 m
€628-763
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
1 h 25 m
€91-219
LAS · 4 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 20 m
€656-803
2 stops
FRA · 69 km
4 h 35 m
€230-263
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 10 m
€628-668
FRA · 69 km
4 h 20 m
€261-438
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
10 h 25 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
2 h 40 m
€154-209
LAS · 4 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 45 m
€490-632
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
11 h 55 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
3 h 30 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

MeasureHeidelbergLas 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
Elevation114 m610 m
Main airportFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)69 km from centre293 non-stop destinationsHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureHeidelbergLas Vegas
City population162,960641,903
People per km²1,4961,843
Museums within 10 km1721
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre4549

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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.