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The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign, Las Vegas
Las VegasThe Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign
Flinders Street Station, Melbourne
MelbourneFlinders Street Station

Photos: Las Vegas by Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Melbourne by Medelam, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Las Vegas or Melbourne?

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

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • prices

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

Choose Melbourne for

  • families
  • beaches
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Melbourne’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, Melbourne 50: Melbourne leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Las Vegas 68, Melbourne 75: Melbourne leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Las Vegas 25, Melbourne 57: Melbourne leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Las Vegas 88, Melbourne 75: Las Vegas leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Las Vegas 68, Melbourne 70: Melbourne leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Las Vegas 25, Melbourne 62: Melbourne leads by 37 points.
Good for families. Las Vegas 25, Melbourne 73: Melbourne leads by 48 points.
Getting around. Las Vegas 38, Melbourne 76: Melbourne leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Las Vegas 64, Melbourne 70: Melbourne leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Las Vegas 35, Melbourne 31: Las Vegas leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Las Vegas 78, Melbourne 72: Las Vegas leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Las Vegas 40, Melbourne 54: Melbourne leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Las Vegas and Melbourne.

Your match

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

Las Vegas
47match

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

Melbourne
Best match
64match

Wins on families and beaches 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

Melbourne in July

14 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
46 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Las VegasMelbourne

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre). Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLas VegasMelbourne
Official language-English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number911000
Elevation610 m31 m
Main airportHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinationsMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre69 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLas VegasMelbourne
City population641,9035,350,705
People per km²1,843535
Museums within 10 km2143
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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. 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.

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.