VacationSelector

Las Vegas or Madrid?

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

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Madrid
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

Las VegasMadrid
Beaches & swimming. Las Vegas and Madrid are level on 0.
Las VegasMadrid
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km04
Coast distance372 km305 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Madrid leads by 21 points.21
Las VegasMadrid
Score6283
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9153,508
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2428
Museums & heritage. Madrid leads by 56 points.56
Las VegasMadrid
Score1975
Museums within 10 km2497
Museums within 2 km of centre459
Share of museums within 2 km %1761
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Madrid leads by 23 points.23
Las VegasMadrid
Score5881
Drinking venues within 4 km7932,414
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4851,498
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6162
Nightclubs within 4 km90341
Nature & day trips. Las Vegas and Madrid are level on 63.
Las VegasMadrid
Score6363
Protected land share 50 km %5019
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km7 hectares187 hectares
Good for families. Madrid leads by 43 points.43
Las VegasMadrid
Score3477
Tourist attractions within 2 km1961
Park area within 2 km7 hectares187 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km43
Sights concentration. Madrid leads by 24 points.24
Las VegasMadrid
Score5175
Notable places within 2 km75288
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Madrid leads by 28 points.28
Las VegasMadrid
Score4371
Price level global10060.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Las Vegas and Madrid are level on 72.
Las VegasMadrid
Score7272
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 40.3 °C10 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 21 mm9 mm to 64 mm
Dry months127
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
Madrid
10
12
16
19
23
29
33
32
27
20
14
10
Rainfall, mm
Las Vegas
14
21
11
5
2
1
9
8
8
8
8
11
Madrid
32
34
35
46
49
20
9
10
24
64
53
42
Daylight, hours per day
Las Vegas
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Madrid
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Las Vegas
No sunshine record
Madrid
5
5
7
8
9
11
12
11
9
6
5
4

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). Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromLas VegasMadrid
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
1 h 5 m
€76-164
LAS · 4 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 35 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 55 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 14 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 55 m
€242-269
LAS · 4 km
7 h 25 m
€496-659
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
3 h 30 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
11 h 20 m
€861-905
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 30 m
€171-225
LAS · 4 km
8 h 35 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
2 h 20 m
€121-231
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
4 h 35 m
€230-263
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
San FranciscoSFO
1 h 25 m
€91-219
LAS · 4 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
SeoulICN, GMP
12 h 0 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
12 h 25 m
no fares
MAD · 14 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 VegasMadrid
Official languageSpanish
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
Elevation610 m663 m
Main airportHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre236 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLas VegasMadrid
City population641,9033,506,730
People per km²1,8435,801
Museums within 10 km2188
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre49106

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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.