VacationSelector

Las Vegas or Mexico City?

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

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Mexico City
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money 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 VegasMexico City
Beaches & swimming. Las Vegas and Mexico City are level on 0.
Las VegasMexico City
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km04
Coast distance372 km247 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Mexico City leads by 4 points.4
Las VegasMexico City
Score6266
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9152,179
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2415
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 60 points.60
Las VegasMexico City
Score1979
Museums within 10 km24138
Museums within 2 km of centre465
Share of museums within 2 km %1747
Unesco sites within 50 km06
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 20 points.20
Las VegasMexico City
Score5878
Drinking venues within 4 km7932,156
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre485926
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6143
Nightclubs within 4 km90198
Nature & day trips. Las Vegas and Mexico City are level on 63.
Las VegasMexico City
Score6363
Protected land share 50 km %5030
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km7 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Mexico City leads by 16 points.16
Las VegasMexico City
Score3450
Tourist attractions within 2 km1923
Park area within 2 km7 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km44
Sights concentration. Mexico City leads by 3 points.3
Las VegasMexico City
Score5154
Notable places within 2 km7588
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 33 points.33
Las VegasMexico City
Score4376
Price level global10054.2
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 18 points.18
Las VegasMexico City
Score7290
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 40.3 °C22.2 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 21 mm3 mm to 186 mm
Dry months126
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
Mexico City
22
25
26
28
27
26
25
25
24
23
23
22
Rainfall, mm
Las Vegas
14
21
11
5
2
1
9
8
8
8
8
11
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Daylight, hours per day
Las Vegas
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Las Vegas
No sunshine record
Mexico City
8
8
9
8
8
6
6
6
5
6
7
7

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). Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromLas VegasMexico City
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
1 h 5 m
€76-164
LAS · 4 km
3 h 35 m
€248-282
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 30 m
€171-225
LAS · 4 km
3 h 50 m
€259-271
MEX · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 55 m
€242-269
LAS · 4 km
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
GuadalajaraGDL
3 h 5 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
2 h 40 m
€154-209
LAS · 4 km
2 h 25 m
€203-306
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
MonterreyMTY
2 h 50 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
3 h 0 m
€166-315
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
CancunCUN
4 h 25 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
2 h 10 m
€123-162
MEX · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
SeoulICN, GMP
12 h 0 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
14 h 55 m
no fares
MEX · 7 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 VegasMexico City
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number911911
Elevation610 m2,240 m
Main airportHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinationsMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureLas VegasMexico City
City population641,9039,209,944
People per km²1,8436,202
Museums within 10 km21108
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km06
Distinct cuisines in the centre4950

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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. 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.