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The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign, Las Vegas
Las VegasThe Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign
The Royal Palace, Madrid
MadridThe Royal Palace

Photos: Las Vegas by Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Madrid by Mert Ocak, Pexels License.

Las Vegas or Madrid?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • wellness

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

Choose Madrid for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Madrid’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, Madrid 5: Las Vegas leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Las Vegas 68, Madrid 80: Madrid leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Las Vegas 25, Madrid 86: Madrid leads by 61 points.
Nightlife. Las Vegas 88, Madrid 85: Las Vegas leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Las Vegas 68, Madrid 60: Las Vegas leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Las Vegas 25, Madrid 89: Madrid leads by 64 points.
Good for families. Las Vegas 25, Madrid 68: Madrid leads by 43 points.
Getting around. Las Vegas 38, Madrid 84: Madrid leads by 46 points.
Shopping & style. Las Vegas 64, Madrid 75: Madrid leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Las Vegas 35, Madrid 50: Madrid leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Las Vegas 78, Madrid 77: Las Vegas leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Las Vegas 40, Madrid 36: Las Vegas leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Las Vegas and Madrid.

Your match

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

Las Vegas
47match

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

Madrid
Best match
66match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights 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

Madrid in July

33 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
9 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Las VegasMadrid

Temperature and rainfall are 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).

Before you go

MeasureLas VegasMadrid
Official language-Spanish
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 centre239 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

Where else could you go?

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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. 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.

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.