VacationSelector

Las Vegas or Monaco?

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

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Monaco
✓ Best match
48
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 VegasMonaco
Beaches & swimming. Monaco leads by 73 points.73
Las VegasMonaco
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km050
Coast distance372 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Las Vegas leads by 23 points.23
Las VegasMonaco
Score6239
Restaurants within 2 km of centre915269
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2416
Museums & heritage. Monaco leads by 19 points.19
Las VegasMonaco
Score1938
Museums within 10 km2423
Museums within 2 km of centre48
Share of museums within 2 km %1735
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Las Vegas leads by 50 points.50
Las VegasMonaco
Score588
Drinking venues within 4 km79369
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre48563
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6191
Nightclubs within 4 km907
Nature & day trips. Las Vegas leads by 10 points.10
Las VegasMonaco
Score6353
Protected land share 50 km %5024
Landscape blanket share 50 km %017
Land share of disc %10054
Park area within 2 km7 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Monaco leads by 1 points.1
Las VegasMonaco
Score3435
Tourist attractions within 2 km1914
Park area within 2 km7 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km43
Sights concentration. Monaco leads by 13 points.13
Las VegasMonaco
Score5164
Notable places within 2 km75154
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for moneyNo source publishes a price level for Monaco.
Year-round weather. Monaco leads by 2 points.2
Las VegasMonaco
Score7274
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 40.3 °C13.3 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 21 mm13 mm to 138 mm
Dry months123
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
Monaco
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Las Vegas
No coastline within reach
Monaco
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Las Vegas
14
21
11
5
2
1
9
8
8
8
8
11
Monaco
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Daylight, hours per day
Las Vegas
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Monaco
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Las Vegas
No sunshine record
Monaco
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5

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). Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLas VegasMonaco
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 35 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 55 m
€242-269
LAS · 4 km
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 55 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 18 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
4 h 55 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
7 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
4 h 35 m
€230-263
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
1 h 30 m
€164-246
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
4 h 0 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
9 h 40 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
10 h 45 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 18 km
ManchesterMAN
10 h 15 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
BostonBOS, PSM
5 h 10 m
€236-259
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
NCE · 18 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 VegasMonaco
Official languageFrench
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCEF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation610 m68 m
Main airportHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLas VegasMonaco
City population641,90338,857
People per km²1,84318,503
Museums within 10 km2114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre4929
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.