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The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign, Las Vegas
Las VegasThe Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign
The tusks over Moi Avenue, Mombasa
MombasaThe tusks over Moi Avenue

Photos: Las Vegas by Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Mombasa by Rob Oo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Las Vegas or Mombasa?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • shopping

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

Choose Mombasa for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Mombasa’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, Mombasa 82: Mombasa leads by 72 points.
Food & drink. Las Vegas 68, Mombasa 60: Las Vegas leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Las Vegas 25, Mombasa 55: Mombasa leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Las Vegas 88, Mombasa 46: Las Vegas leads by 42 points.
Nature & outdoors. Las Vegas 68, Mombasa 74: Mombasa leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Las Vegas 25, Mombasa 45: Mombasa leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Las Vegas 25, Mombasa 45: Mombasa leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Las Vegas 38, Mombasa 30: Las Vegas leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Las Vegas 64, Mombasa 35: Las Vegas leads by 29 points.
Affordability. Las Vegas 35, Mombasa 70: Mombasa leads by 35 points.
Live music & performing arts. Las Vegas 78, Mombasa 22: Las Vegas leads by 56 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Las Vegas and Mombasa are level on 40.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Las Vegas and Mombasa.

Your match

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

Las Vegas
47match

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

Mombasa
Best match
50match

Wins on beaches and prices 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 seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Mombasa in July

28 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
63 mmrain in the month
26 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Mombasa 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre). Mombasa: 1991-2020 normals, Mombasa (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLas VegasMombasa
Official language-English, Swahili
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Kenyan Shilling (KES)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number911Police 112/999, ambulance 112/999, fire 112/999
Elevation610 m50 m
Main airportHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinationsMoi International Airport (MBA)8 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureLas VegasMombasa
City population641,9031,208,333
People per km²1,8434,100
Museums within 10 km210
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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