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The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign, Las Vegas
Las VegasThe Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign
The cathedral from Piazza del Duomo, Milan
MilanThe cathedral from Piazza del Duomo

Photos: Las Vegas by Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Milan by Jiuguang Wang, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Las Vegas or Milan?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

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

Choose Milan for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Milan’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, Milan 20: Milan leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Las Vegas 68, Milan 78: Milan leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Las Vegas 25, Milan 78: Milan leads by 53 points.
Nightlife. Las Vegas 88, Milan 66: Las Vegas leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Las Vegas 68, Milan 65: Las Vegas leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Las Vegas 25, Milan 91: Milan leads by 66 points.
Good for families. Las Vegas 25, Milan 55: Milan leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Las Vegas 38, Milan 79: Milan leads by 41 points.
Shopping & style. Las Vegas 64, Milan 92: Milan leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Las Vegas 35, Milan 33: Las Vegas leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Las Vegas 78, Milan 82: Milan leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Las Vegas 40, Milan 42: Milan 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 Milan.

Your match

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

Las Vegas
47match

Wins on nightlife and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Milan
Best match
65match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights 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
14 hdaylight a day

Milan in July

30 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
70 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Milan has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Milan's sunshine is measured 41 km from the centre, at Novara / Cameri.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre). Milan: 1991-2020 normals, Milano / Linate (8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLas VegasMilan
Official language-Italian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation610 m138 m
Main airportHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinationsMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)40 km from centre208 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLas VegasMilan
City population641,9031,354,196
People per km²1,8437,453
Museums within 10 km2188
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04

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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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.