VacationSelector

Las Vegas or London?

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

Your match

Las Vegas
45
match

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

London
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families 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.

Las VegasLondon
Beaches & swimming. Las Vegas and London are level on 0.
Las VegasLondon
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km047
Coast distance372 km43 km
Water distance
Places to eat. London leads by 26 points.26
Las VegasLondon
Score6288
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9153,317
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2440
Museums & heritage. London leads by 53 points.53
Las VegasLondon
Score1972
Museums within 10 km24148
Museums within 2 km of centre449
Share of museums within 2 km %1733
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. London leads by 37 points.37
Las VegasLondon
Score5895
Drinking venues within 4 km7935,327
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4852,443
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6146
Nightclubs within 4 km90312
Nature & day trips. Las Vegas leads by 23 points.23
Las VegasLondon
Score6340
Protected land share 50 km %5016
Landscape blanket share 50 km %014
Land share of disc %10097
Park area within 2 km7 hectares84 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 41 points.41
Las VegasLondon
Score3475
Tourist attractions within 2 km1985
Park area within 2 km7 hectares84 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km43
Sights concentration. London leads by 38 points.38
Las VegasLondon
Score5189
Notable places within 2 km75649
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. London leads by 11 points.11
Las VegasLondon
Score4354
Price level global10084.9
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Las Vegas leads by 9 points.9
Las VegasLondon
Score7263
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 40.3 °C8.2 °C to 23.8 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 21 mm38 mm to 67 mm
Dry months121
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
Las Vegas
15
17
22
26
32
38
40
39
35
27
20
14
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Las Vegas
14
21
11
5
2
1
9
8
8
8
8
11
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Daylight, hours per day
Las Vegas
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
London
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Las Vegas
No sunshine record
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre). London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromLas VegasLondon
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
1 h 5 m
€76-164
LAS · 4 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 55 m
€242-269
LAS · 4 km
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 30 m
€171-225
LAS · 4 km
8 h 10 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
San DiegoSAN, CLD
1 h 10 m
€90-110
LAS · 4 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
4 h 35 m
€230-263
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
San FranciscoSFO
1 h 25 m
€91-219
LAS · 4 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
2 h 40 m
€154-209
LAS · 4 km
9 h 40 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
3 h 30 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
SeoulICN, GMP
12 h 0 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
LHR · 23 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

MeasureLas VegasLondon
Official languageEnglish
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 centre220 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 km21215
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre49116

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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. 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. 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.