VacationSelector

Las Vegas or Manchester?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Las Vegas
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

Manchester
47
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 VegasManchester
Beaches & swimming. Manchester leads by 28 points.28
Las VegasManchester
Score028
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km010
Coast distance372 km27 km
Water distance27 km
Places to eat. Manchester leads by 6 points.6
Las VegasManchester
Score6268
Restaurants within 2 km of centre915853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2435
Museums & heritage. Manchester leads by 23 points.23
Las VegasManchester
Score1942
Museums within 10 km2423
Museums within 2 km of centre411
Share of museums within 2 km %1748
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Manchester leads by 4 points.4
Las VegasManchester
Score5862
Drinking venues within 4 km7931,029
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre485792
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6177
Nightclubs within 4 km9082
Nature & day trips. Las Vegas leads by 27 points.27
Las VegasManchester
Score6336
Protected land share 50 km %5017
Landscape blanket share 50 km %017
Land share of disc %10099
Park area within 2 km7 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Las Vegas leads by 2 points.2
Las VegasManchester
Score3432
Tourist attractions within 2 km195
Park area within 2 km7 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Las Vegas leads by 3 points.3
Las VegasManchester
Score5148
Notable places within 2 km7561
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manchester leads by 11 points.11
Las VegasManchester
Score4354
Price level global10084.9
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Las Vegas leads by 18 points.18
Las VegasManchester
Score7254
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 40.3 °C7.2 °C to 20.8 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 21 mm51 mm to 95 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
Manchester
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Sea temperature, °C
Las Vegas
No coastline within reach
Manchester
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Las Vegas
14
21
11
5
2
1
9
8
8
8
8
11
Manchester
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Daylight, hours per day
Las Vegas
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Manchester
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Las Vegas
No sunshine record
Manchester
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
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). Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLas VegasManchester
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
4 h 20 m
€261-438
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 55 m
€242-269
LAS · 4 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
4 h 0 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
OrlandoMCO, SFB, ORL
4 h 30 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 55 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 35 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 15 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 VegasManchester
Official languageEnglish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 999
Elevation610 m38 m
Main airportHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinationsManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre210 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureLas VegasManchester
City population641,903547,627
People per km²1,8434,737
Museums within 10 km2128
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre4963
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. 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.