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The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign, Las Vegas
Las VegasThe Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign
A yellow tram in a narrow street, Lisbon
LisbonA yellow tram in a narrow street

Photos: Las Vegas by Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Lisbon by Riccardo Toso, Pexels License.

Las Vegas or Lisbon?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • shopping

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

Choose Lisbon for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Lisbon’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, Lisbon 50: Lisbon leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Las Vegas 68, Lisbon 75: Lisbon leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Las Vegas 25, Lisbon 78: Lisbon leads by 53 points.
Nightlife. Las Vegas 88, Lisbon 75: Las Vegas leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Las Vegas 68, Lisbon 75: Lisbon leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Las Vegas 25, Lisbon 82: Lisbon leads by 57 points.
Good for families. Las Vegas 25, Lisbon 62: Lisbon leads by 37 points.
Getting around. Las Vegas 38, Lisbon 66: Lisbon leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Las Vegas 64, Lisbon 60: Las Vegas leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Las Vegas 35, Lisbon 55: Lisbon leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Las Vegas 78, Lisbon 60: Las Vegas leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Las Vegas 40, Lisbon 36: Las Vegas leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Las Vegas and Lisbon.

Your match

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

Las Vegas
47match

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

Lisbon
Best match
65match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights 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

Lisbon in July

28 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Las VegasLisbon

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre). Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLas VegasLisbon
Official language-Portuguese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation610 m100 m
Main airportHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinationsLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre156 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLas VegasLisbon
City population641,903545,796
People per km²1,8435,453
Museums within 10 km2180
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

Where else could you go?

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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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.