VacationSelector

Helsinki or Las Vegas?

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

Your match

Helsinki
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Las Vegas
45
match

Wins on year-round weather and nature & day trips 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.

HelsinkiLas Vegas
Beaches & swimming. Helsinki leads by 60 points.60
HelsinkiLas Vegas
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1570
Coast distance0 km372 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Helsinki leads by 9 points.9
HelsinkiLas Vegas
Score7162
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,005915
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3824
Museums & heritage. Helsinki leads by 30 points.30
HelsinkiLas Vegas
Score4919
Museums within 10 km5724
Museums within 2 km of centre234
Share of museums within 2 km %4017
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Las Vegas leads by 2 points.2
HelsinkiLas Vegas
Score5658
Drinking venues within 4 km807793
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre607485
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7561
Nightclubs within 4 km4090
Nature & day trips. Las Vegas leads by 21 points.21
HelsinkiLas Vegas
Score4263
Protected land share 50 km %350
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %53100
Park area within 2 km185 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Helsinki leads by 24 points.24
HelsinkiLas Vegas
Score5834
Tourist attractions within 2 km2019
Park area within 2 km185 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Helsinki leads by 22 points.22
HelsinkiLas Vegas
Score7351
Notable places within 2 km25775
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Helsinki leads by 13 points.13
HelsinkiLas Vegas
Score5643
Price level global81.6100
Daily budget€184
Year-round weather. Las Vegas leads by 24 points.24
HelsinkiLas Vegas
Score4872
Monthly daytime high-1.5 °C to 21.9 °C13.9 °C to 40.3 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 84 mm1 mm to 21 mm
Dry months312
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
Helsinki
-1
-1
2
8
15
19
22
21
15
9
4
1
Las Vegas
15
17
22
26
32
38
40
39
35
27
20
14
Sea temperature, °C
Helsinki
2
1
1
2
6
11
16
17
14
10
7
4
Las Vegas
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Helsinki
54
38
35
32
41
56
58
84
55
75
70
59
Las Vegas
14
21
11
5
2
1
9
8
8
8
8
11
Daylight, hours per day
Helsinki
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Las Vegas
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Helsinki
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
5
3
1
1
Las Vegas
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Helsinki: 1991-2020 normals, Helsinki Kaisaniemi / Harju (1.6 km from centre). Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHelsinkiLas Vegas
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 15 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
1 h 5 m
€76-164
LAS · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 50 m
€112-224
HEL · 16 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 30 m
€203-241
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€251-299
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
4 h 55 m
€242-269
LAS · 4 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
9 h 5 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
3 h 30 m
€171-225
LAS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 55 m
€187-219
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
10 h 30 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
2 h 40 m
€154-209
LAS · 4 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
9 h 40 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
2 h 20 m
€132-243
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
SeoulICN, GMP
8 h 55 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
12 h 0 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

MeasureHelsinkiLas Vegas
Official languageFinnish, Swedish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation17 m610 m
Main airportHelsinki Vantaa Airport (HEL)16 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureHelsinkiLas Vegas
City population694,392641,903
People per km²3,2391,843
Museums within 10 km7421
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
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). 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.