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The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign, Las Vegas
Las VegasThe Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign
Palermo Cathedral, Palermo
PalermoPalermo Cathedral

Photos: Las Vegas by Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Palermo by Antonino Giangrasso, Pexels License.

Las Vegas or Palermo?

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
  • shopping
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Palermo for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Palermo’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, Palermo 77: Palermo leads by 67 points.
Food & drink. Las Vegas 68, Palermo 81: Palermo leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Las Vegas 25, Palermo 80: Palermo leads by 55 points.
Nightlife. Las Vegas 88, Palermo 58: Las Vegas leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Las Vegas 68, Palermo 72: Palermo leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Las Vegas 25, Palermo 84: Palermo leads by 59 points.
Good for families. Las Vegas 25, Palermo 44: Palermo leads by 19 points.
Getting around. Las Vegas 38, Palermo 50: Palermo leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Las Vegas 64, Palermo 44: Las Vegas leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Las Vegas 35, Palermo 63: Palermo leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Las Vegas 78, Palermo 62: Las Vegas leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Las Vegas 40, Palermo 30: Las Vegas leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Las Vegas and Palermo.

Your match

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

Las Vegas
47match

Wins on nightlife and shopping with your weighting.

Palermo
Best match
62match

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

Palermo in July

29 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
2 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
26 °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

Palermo 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.

Palermo's sunshine is measured 67 km from the centre, at Ustica.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre). Palermo: 1991-2020 (sunshine 1961-1990) normals, Palermo / Punta Raisi (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLas VegasPalermo
Official language-Italian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation610 m14 m
Main airportHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre106 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLas VegasPalermo
City population641,903630,167
People per km²1,8433,924
Museums within 10 km2142
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. 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.