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The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign, Las Vegas
Las VegasThe Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign
Shitennō-ji temple, Osaka
OsakaShitennō-ji temple

Photos: Las Vegas by Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Osaka by Sarmat Batagov, Pexels License.

Las Vegas or Osaka?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife

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

Choose Osaka for

  • day trips
  • families
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Osaka’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, Osaka 34: Osaka leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. Las Vegas 68, Osaka 91: Osaka leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Las Vegas 25, Osaka 63: Osaka leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Las Vegas 88, Osaka 80: Las Vegas leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Las Vegas 68, Osaka 58: Las Vegas leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Las Vegas 25, Osaka 97: Osaka leads by 72 points.
Good for families. Las Vegas 25, Osaka 88: Osaka leads by 63 points.
Getting around. Las Vegas 38, Osaka 90: Osaka leads by 52 points.
Shopping & style. Las Vegas 64, Osaka 80: Osaka leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Las Vegas 35, Osaka 60: Osaka leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Las Vegas 78, Osaka 66: Las Vegas leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Las Vegas 40, Osaka 66: Osaka leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Las Vegas and Osaka.

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 nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Osaka
Best match
73match

Wins on day trips 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 recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Osaka in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
175 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Las VegasOsaka

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre). Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLas VegasOsaka
Official language-Japanese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation610 m20 m
Main airportHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLas VegasOsaka
City population641,9032,751,862
People per km²1,84312,340
Museums within 10 km2144
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km06
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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.