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The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign, Las Vegas
Las VegasThe Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign
Big Ben and Westminster Bridge, London
LondonBig Ben and Westminster Bridge

Photos: Las Vegas by Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; London by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Las Vegas or London?

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

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose London for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on London’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, London 25: London leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Las Vegas 68, London 84: London leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Las Vegas 25, London 94: London leads by 69 points.
Nightlife. Las Vegas and London are level on 88.
Nature & outdoors. Las Vegas 68, London 57: Las Vegas leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Las Vegas 25, London 90: London leads by 65 points.
Good for families. Las Vegas 25, London 82: London leads by 57 points.
Getting around. Las Vegas 38, London 85: London leads by 47 points.
Shopping & style. Las Vegas 64, London 95: London leads by 31 points.
Affordability. Las Vegas 35, London 15: Las Vegas leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Las Vegas 78, London 98: London leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Las Vegas and London are level on 40.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Las Vegas and London.

Your match

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

Las Vegas
47match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

London
Best match
71match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips 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
14 hdaylight a day

London in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
46 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Las VegasLondon

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre). London: 1992-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, London Weather Centre (1.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLas VegasLondon
Official language-English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 999
Elevation610 m4 m
Main airportHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinationsLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre224 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureLas VegasLondon
City population641,9038,799,728
People per km²1,8435,598
Museums within 10 km21216
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04

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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. 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.