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The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign, Las Vegas
Las VegasThe Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign
The fountain on Plaza Mayor, Lima
LimaThe fountain on Plaza Mayor

Photos: Las Vegas by Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Lima by James C., CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Las Vegas or Lima?

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 Las Vegas for

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

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

Choose Lima for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Lima’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. Las Vegas 10, Lima 42: Lima leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Las Vegas 68, Lima 88: Lima leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Las Vegas 25, Lima 66: Lima leads by 41 points.
Nightlife. Las Vegas 88, Lima 62: Las Vegas leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Las Vegas 68, Lima 45: Las Vegas leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Las Vegas 25, Lima 34: Lima leads by 9 points.
Good for families. Las Vegas 25, Lima 42: Lima leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Las Vegas 38, Lima 35: Las Vegas leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Las Vegas 64, Lima 52: Las Vegas leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Las Vegas 35, Lima 70: Lima leads by 35 points.
Live music & performing arts. Las Vegas 78, Lima 53: Las Vegas leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Las Vegas 40, Lima 25: Las Vegas leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Las Vegas and Lima.

Your match

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

Las Vegas
47match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Lima
Best match
51match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Lima in July

19 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
1 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Las VegasLima

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLas VegasLima
Official language-Spanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Sol (PEN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number911111 or 911
Elevation610 m154 m
Main airportHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLas VegasLima
City population641,9039,943,800
People per km²1,8433,721
Museums within 10 km2147
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C-2 months

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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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.