VacationSelector

Las Vegas or Lucerne?

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

Your match

Las Vegas
✓ Best match
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips and nightlife with your weighting.

Lucerne
33
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 VegasLucerne
Beaches & swimming. Las Vegas and Lucerne are level on 0.
Las VegasLucerne
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km016
Coast distance372 km669 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Las Vegas leads by 15 points.15
Las VegasLucerne
Score6247
Restaurants within 2 km of centre915269
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2425
Museums & heritage. Lucerne leads by 21 points.21
Las VegasLucerne
Score1940
Museums within 10 km2423
Museums within 2 km of centre413
Share of museums within 2 km %1757
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Las Vegas leads by 30 points.30
Las VegasLucerne
Score5828
Drinking venues within 4 km793202
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre485151
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6175
Nightclubs within 4 km9011
Nature & day trips. Las Vegas leads by 38 points.38
Las VegasLucerne
Score6325
Protected land share 50 km %507
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km7 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Lucerne leads by 4 points.4
Las VegasLucerne
Score3438
Tourist attractions within 2 km1915
Park area within 2 km7 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Las Vegas leads by 16 points.16
Las VegasLucerne
Score5135
Notable places within 2 km7529
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Las Vegas leads by 8 points.8
Las VegasLucerne
Score4335
Price level global100110.5
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Las Vegas leads by 19 points.19
Las VegasLucerne
Score7253
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 40.3 °C3.6 °C to 24.3 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 21 mm60 mm to 128 mm
Dry months120
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
Lucerne
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Rainfall, mm
Las Vegas
14
21
11
5
2
1
9
8
8
8
8
11
Lucerne
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Daylight, hours per day
Las Vegas
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Lucerne
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Las Vegas
No sunshine record
Lucerne
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
2
1

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). Lucerne: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (41.7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromLas VegasLucerne
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
1 h 5 m
€76-164
LAS · 4 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 35 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 49 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 55 m
€242-269
LAS · 4 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 30 m
€171-225
LAS · 4 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
San FranciscoSFO
1 h 25 m
€91-219
LAS · 4 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
AmsterdamAMS
10 h 45 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 49 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
4 h 35 m
€230-263
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
2 h 40 m
€154-209
LAS · 4 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
SeoulICN, GMP
12 h 0 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 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 VegasLucerne
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation610 m436 m
Main airportHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)49 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLas VegasLucerne
City population641,90386,234
People per km²1,8432,963
Museums within 10 km2114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre4946

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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. 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. 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.