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The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign, Las Vegas
Las VegasThe Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign
The Eiffel Tower from the Trocadéro, Paris
ParisThe Eiffel Tower from the Trocadéro

Photos: Las Vegas by Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Paris by Efrem Efre, Pexels License.

Las Vegas or Paris?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices
  • nightlife

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

Choose Paris for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Paris’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, Paris 9: Las Vegas leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Las Vegas 68, Paris 96: Paris leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Las Vegas 25, Paris 97: Paris leads by 72 points.
Nightlife. Las Vegas 88, Paris 80: Las Vegas leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Las Vegas 68, Paris 52: Las Vegas leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Las Vegas 25, Paris 92: Paris leads by 67 points.
Good for families. Las Vegas 25, Paris 79: Paris leads by 54 points.
Getting around. Las Vegas 38, Paris 88: Paris leads by 50 points.
Shopping & style. Las Vegas 64, Paris 98: Paris leads by 34 points.
Affordability. Las Vegas 35, Paris 25: Las Vegas leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Las Vegas 78, Paris 88: Paris leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Las Vegas and Paris are level on 40.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Las Vegas and Paris.

Your match

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

Las Vegas
47match

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

Paris
Best match
70match

Wins on culture and sights 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
14 hdaylight a day

Paris in July

26 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
58 mmrain in the month
16 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). Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLas VegasParis
Official language-French
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation610 m27 m
Main airportHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinationsCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLas VegasParis
City population641,9032,103,778
People per km²1,84319,960
Museums within 10 km21251
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04

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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. 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.