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The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign, Las Vegas
Las VegasThe Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign
The Opera House on the fjord, Oslo
OsloThe Opera House on the fjord

Photos: Las Vegas by Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Oslo by Beata May, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Las Vegas or Oslo?

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
  • prices
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Oslo for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Oslo’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, Oslo 36: Oslo leads by 26 points.
Food & drink. Las Vegas 68, Oslo 55: Las Vegas leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Las Vegas 25, Oslo 66: Oslo leads by 41 points.
Nightlife. Las Vegas 88, Oslo 48: Las Vegas leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. Las Vegas 68, Oslo 82: Oslo leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Las Vegas 25, Oslo 52: Oslo leads by 27 points.
Good for families. Las Vegas 25, Oslo 63: Oslo leads by 38 points.
Getting around. Las Vegas 38, Oslo 85: Oslo leads by 47 points.
Shopping & style. Las Vegas 64, Oslo 50: Las Vegas leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Las Vegas 35, Oslo 14: Las Vegas leads by 21 points.
Live music & performing arts. Las Vegas 78, Oslo 62: Las Vegas leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Las Vegas 40, Oslo 60: Oslo leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Las Vegas and Oslo.

Your match

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

Las Vegas
47match

Wins on nightlife and prices with your weighting.

Oslo
Best match
56match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights 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

Oslo in July

23 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
86 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Las VegasOslo

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre). Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLas VegasOslo
Official language-Norwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation610 m23 m
Main airportHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinationsOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre147 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLas VegasOslo
City population641,903717,710
People per km²1,843-
Museums within 10 km2160
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

Where else could you go?

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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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.