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The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign, Las Vegas
Las VegasThe Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign
Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky

Photos: Las Vegas by Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Las Vegas or Montevideo?

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
  • shopping

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

Choose Montevideo for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Montevideo’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, Montevideo 55: Montevideo leads by 45 points.
Food & drink. Las Vegas 68, Montevideo 57: Las Vegas leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Las Vegas 25, Montevideo 54: Montevideo leads by 29 points.
Nightlife. Las Vegas 88, Montevideo 50: Las Vegas leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Las Vegas 68, Montevideo 34: Las Vegas leads by 34 points.
Day trips. Las Vegas 25, Montevideo 55: Montevideo leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Las Vegas 25, Montevideo 55: Montevideo leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Las Vegas 38, Montevideo 54: Montevideo leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Las Vegas 64, Montevideo 36: Las Vegas leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Las Vegas 35, Montevideo 42: Montevideo leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Las Vegas 78, Montevideo 57: Las Vegas leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Las Vegas 40, Montevideo 38: Las Vegas 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 Montevideo.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Las Vegas
47match

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

Montevideo
49match

Wins on beaches and day trips 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

Montevideo in July

15 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
99 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
11 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre). Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLas VegasMontevideo
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Peso Uruguayo (UYU)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFIL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number911911
Elevation610 m41 m
Main airportHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinationsCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureLas VegasMontevideo
City population641,9031,302,954
People per km²1,8431,785
Museums within 10 km2136
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.