VacationSelector

Kuala Lumpur or Las Vegas?

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

Your match

Kuala Lumpur
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on value for money and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Las Vegas
45
match

Wins on 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.

Kuala LumpurLas Vegas
Beaches & swimming. Kuala Lumpur leads by 40 points.40
Kuala LumpurLas Vegas
Score400
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance38 km372 km
Water distance36 km
Places to eat. Kuala Lumpur leads by 16 points.16
Kuala LumpurLas Vegas
Score7862
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,358915
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2824
Museums & heritage. Kuala Lumpur leads by 32 points.32
Kuala LumpurLas Vegas
Score5119
Museums within 10 km4124
Museums within 2 km of centre264
Share of museums within 2 km %6317
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Kuala Lumpur leads by 9 points.9
Kuala LumpurLas Vegas
Score6758
Drinking venues within 4 km1,308793
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre735485
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5661
Nightclubs within 4 km12690
Nature & day trips. Kuala Lumpur leads by 6 points.6
Kuala LumpurLas Vegas
Score6963
Protected land share 50 km %2850
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %97100
Park area within 2 km70 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Kuala Lumpur leads by 26 points.26
Kuala LumpurLas Vegas
Score6034
Tourist attractions within 2 km2619
Park area within 2 km70 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km54
Sights concentration. Kuala Lumpur and Las Vegas are level on 51.
Kuala LumpurLas Vegas
Score5151
Notable places within 2 km7575
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kuala Lumpur leads by 49 points.49
Kuala LumpurLas Vegas
Score9243
Price level global30.6100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Las Vegas leads by 20 points.20
Kuala LumpurLas Vegas
Score5272
Monthly daytime high31.9 °C to 33.7 °C13.9 °C to 40.3 °C
Monthly rainfall145 mm to 360 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
Kuala Lumpur
33
33
34
34
34
33
33
33
33
33
32
32
Las Vegas
15
17
22
26
32
38
40
39
35
27
20
14
Sea temperature, °C
Kuala Lumpur
29
29
30
30
30
30
30
30
30
30
29
29
Las Vegas
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Kuala Lumpur
227
197
270
296
232
145
169
178
215
284
360
281
Las Vegas
14
21
11
5
2
1
9
8
8
8
8
11
Daylight, hours per day
Kuala Lumpur
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
Las Vegas
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Kuala Lumpur: 1991-2020 normals, Sepang/KL International Airport (46.1 km from centre). Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromKuala LumpurLas Vegas
SeoulICN, GMP
6 h 5 m
€251-273
KUL · 45 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
13 h 10 m
€471-602
KUL · 45 km
10 h 35 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

MeasureKuala LumpurLas Vegas
Official languageMalay
CurrencyMalaysian Ringgit (MYR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number999911
Elevation50 m610 m
Main airportKuala Lumpur International Airport (KUL)45 km from centre136 non-stop destinationsHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKuala LumpurLas Vegas
City population9,000,280641,903
People per km²36,9321,843
Museums within 10 km2521
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre6949
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months

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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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.