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The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign, Las Vegas
Las VegasThe Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign
The arch at the entrance to the boardwalk, Ocean City, Maryland
Ocean City, MarylandThe arch at the entrance to the boardwalk

Photos: Las Vegas by Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Ocean City, Maryland by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Las Vegas or Ocean City, Maryland?

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 Ocean City, Maryland for

  • beaches
  • families
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Ocean City, Maryland’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, Ocean City, Maryland 78: Ocean City, Maryland leads by 68 points.
Food & drink. Las Vegas 68, Ocean City, Maryland 40: Las Vegas leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Las Vegas 25, Ocean City, Maryland 14: Las Vegas leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Las Vegas 88, Ocean City, Maryland 45: Las Vegas leads by 43 points.
Nature & outdoors. Las Vegas 68, Ocean City, Maryland 50: Las Vegas leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Las Vegas 25, Ocean City, Maryland 42: Ocean City, Maryland leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Las Vegas 25, Ocean City, Maryland 78: Ocean City, Maryland leads by 53 points.
Getting around. Las Vegas 38, Ocean City, Maryland 34: Las Vegas leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Las Vegas 64, Ocean City, Maryland 24: Las Vegas leads by 40 points.
Affordability. Las Vegas 35, Ocean City, Maryland 40: Ocean City, Maryland leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Las Vegas 78, Ocean City, Maryland 18: Las Vegas leads by 60 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Las Vegas 40, Ocean City, Maryland 22: Las Vegas leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Las Vegas and Ocean City, Maryland.

Your match

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

Las Vegas
Best match
47match

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

Ocean City, Maryland
40match

Wins on beaches and families 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

Ocean City, Maryland in July

29 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
96 mmrain in the month
24 °Csea
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

Ocean City, Maryland 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). Ocean City, Maryland: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Ocean City / Morris Mobile Home Park (10.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLas VegasOcean City, Maryland
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation610 m2 m
Main airportHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinationsSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)39 km from centre4 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLas VegasOcean City, Maryland
City population641,9036,844
People per km²1,84373
Museums within 10 km210
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-3 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.