VacationSelector

Las Vegas or Malaga?

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

Wins on nature & day trips and sights concentration with your weighting.

Malaga
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage 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 VegasMalaga
Beaches & swimming. Malaga leads by 66 points.66
Las VegasMalaga
Score066
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km021
Coast distance372 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Malaga leads by 7 points.7
Las VegasMalaga
Score6269
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9151,002
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2434
Museums & heritage. Malaga leads by 34 points.34
Las VegasMalaga
Score1953
Museums within 10 km2440
Museums within 2 km of centre435
Share of museums within 2 km %1788
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Las Vegas leads by 4 points.4
Las VegasMalaga
Score5854
Drinking venues within 4 km793715
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre485486
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6168
Nightclubs within 4 km9045
Nature & day trips. Las Vegas leads by 20 points.20
Las VegasMalaga
Score6343
Protected land share 50 km %507
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10063
Park area within 2 km7 hectares85 hectares
Good for families. Malaga leads by 19 points.19
Las VegasMalaga
Score3453
Tourist attractions within 2 km1933
Park area within 2 km7 hectares85 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Las Vegas leads by 14 points.14
Las VegasMalaga
Score5137
Notable places within 2 km7533
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Malaga leads by 28 points.28
Las VegasMalaga
Score4371
Price level global10060.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Malaga leads by 10 points.10
Las VegasMalaga
Score7282
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 40.3 °C17.2 °C to 31.5 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 21 mm0 mm to 88 mm
Dry months125
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
Malaga
17
18
20
22
25
29
31
32
28
24
20
18
Sea temperature, °C
Las Vegas
No coastline within reach
Malaga
15
15
15
16
18
20
22
23
22
20
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Las Vegas
14
21
11
5
2
1
9
8
8
8
8
11
Malaga
62
55
66
41
23
4
0
3
25
60
78
88
Daylight, hours per day
Las Vegas
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Malaga
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Las Vegas
No sunshine record
Malaga
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
5

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). Malaga: 1991-2020 normals, Malaga / Aeropuerto (8.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLas VegasMalaga
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 35 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
10 h 45 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 55 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
2 h 25 m
€92
AGP · 9 km
ManchesterMAN
10 h 15 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
2 h 50 m
€124-199
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 55 m
€242-269
LAS · 4 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
4 h 55 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
7 h 25 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
ZurichZRH
11 h 25 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
2 h 35 m
€147-204
1 stop
AGP · 9 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 VegasMalaga
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 m18 m
Main airportHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinationsMálaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP)9 km from centre165 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
Distinct cuisines in the centre4965
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months

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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. 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. 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.