VacationSelector

Las Vegas or Maastricht?

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 nightlife and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Maastricht
41
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money 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 VegasMaastricht
Beaches & swimming. Las Vegas and Maastricht are level on 0.
Las VegasMaastricht
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km06
Coast distance372 km118 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Las Vegas leads by 14 points.14
Las VegasMaastricht
Score6248
Restaurants within 2 km of centre915338
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2422
Museums & heritage. Maastricht leads by 34 points.34
Las VegasMaastricht
Score1953
Museums within 10 km2423
Museums within 2 km of centre413
Share of museums within 2 km %1757
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Las Vegas leads by 28 points.28
Las VegasMaastricht
Score5830
Drinking venues within 4 km793223
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre485182
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6182
Nightclubs within 4 km9013
Nature & day trips. Las Vegas leads by 26 points.26
Las VegasMaastricht
Score6337
Protected land share 50 km %5019
Landscape blanket share 50 km %011
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km7 hectares33 hectares
Good for families. Maastricht leads by 12 points.12
Las VegasMaastricht
Score3446
Tourist attractions within 2 km1915
Park area within 2 km7 hectares33 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km45
Sights concentration. Las Vegas leads by 15 points.15
Las VegasMaastricht
Score5136
Notable places within 2 km7532
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Maastricht leads by 15 points.15
Las VegasMaastricht
Score4358
Price level global10079.2
Daily budget€181
Year-round weather. Las Vegas leads by 13 points.13
Las VegasMaastricht
Score7259
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 40.3 °C5.7 °C to 23.8 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 21 mm41 mm to 84 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
Maastricht
6
7
11
15
19
22
24
24
20
15
10
6
Rainfall, mm
Las Vegas
14
21
11
5
2
1
9
8
8
8
8
11
Maastricht
64
58
55
41
58
69
73
84
58
65
62
74
Daylight, hours per day
Las Vegas
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Maastricht
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Las Vegas
No sunshine record
Maastricht
2
3
5
6
7
7
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). Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromLas VegasMaastricht
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 55 m
€242-269
LAS · 4 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 35 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 30 m
€171-225
LAS · 4 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
4 h 35 m
€230-263
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
4 h 20 m
€261-438
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
4 h 0 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 85 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
4 h 55 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
7 h 10 m
€421
BRU · 85 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 VegasMaastricht
Official languageDutch
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 911
Elevation610 m49 m
Main airportHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinationsMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLas VegasMaastricht
City population641,903120,227
People per km²1,8432,000
Museums within 10 km2121
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre4933

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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.