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The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign, Las Vegas
Las VegasThe Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign
The cathedral from the gardens, Malaga
MalagaThe cathedral from the gardens

Photos: Las Vegas by Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Malaga by Holger Uwe Schmitt, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Las Vegas or Malaga?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • shopping

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

Choose Malaga for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Malaga’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, Malaga 77: Malaga leads by 67 points.
Food & drink. Las Vegas and Malaga are level on 68.
Culture & sights. Las Vegas 25, Malaga 65: Malaga leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Las Vegas 88, Malaga 62: Las Vegas leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Las Vegas 68, Malaga 73: Malaga leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Las Vegas 25, Malaga 87: Malaga leads by 62 points.
Good for families. Las Vegas 25, Malaga 70: Malaga leads by 45 points.
Getting around. Las Vegas 38, Malaga 70: Malaga leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Las Vegas 64, Malaga 55: Las Vegas leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Las Vegas 35, Malaga 55: Malaga leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Las Vegas 78, Malaga 45: Las Vegas leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Las Vegas 40, Malaga 42: Malaga leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Las Vegas and Malaga.

Your match

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

Las Vegas
47match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife with your weighting.

Malaga
Best match
64match

Wins on beaches and day trips 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
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Malaga in July

31 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
22 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Las VegasMalaga

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre). Malaga: 1991-2020 normals, Malaga / Aeropuerto (8.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLas VegasMalaga
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 m18 m
Main airportHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinationsMálaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP)8 km from centre166 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLas VegasMalaga
City population641,903599,063
People per km²1,8431,517
Museums within 10 km2132
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-3 months

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.