VacationSelector

Las Vegas or Philadelphia?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Las Vegas
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

Philadelphia
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

Las VegasPhiladelphia
Beaches & swimming. Las Vegas and Philadelphia are level on 0.
Las VegasPhiladelphia
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km01
Coast distance372 km13 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 15 points.15
Las VegasPhiladelphia
Score6277
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9151,714
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2435
Museums & heritage. Philadelphia leads by 41 points.41
Las VegasPhiladelphia
Score1960
Museums within 10 km2489
Museums within 2 km of centre448
Share of museums within 2 km %1754
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Philadelphia leads by 1 points.1
Las VegasPhiladelphia
Score5859
Drinking venues within 4 km793930
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre485575
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6162
Nightclubs within 4 km9041
Nature & day trips. Las Vegas leads by 14 points.14
Las VegasPhiladelphia
Score6349
Protected land share 50 km %5014
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10089
Park area within 2 km7 hectares75 hectares
Good for families. Philadelphia leads by 19 points.19
Las VegasPhiladelphia
Score3453
Tourist attractions within 2 km1916
Park area within 2 km7 hectares75 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km44
Sights concentration. Philadelphia leads by 3 points.3
Las VegasPhiladelphia
Score5154
Notable places within 2 km7588
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Las Vegas and Philadelphia are level on 43.
Las VegasPhiladelphia
Score4343
Price level global100100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Las Vegas leads by 12 points.12
Las VegasPhiladelphia
Score7260
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 40.3 °C5.2 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 21 mm69 mm to 112 mm
Dry months120
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Las Vegas
15
17
22
26
32
38
40
39
35
27
20
14
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Rainfall, mm
Las Vegas
14
21
11
5
2
1
9
8
8
8
8
11
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Daylight, hours per day
Las Vegas
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Philadelphia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Las Vegas
No sunshine record
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre). Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromLas VegasPhiladelphia
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
1 h 5 m
€76-164
LAS · 4 km
5 h 10 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 30 m
€171-225
LAS · 4 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
3 h 0 m
€166-315
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
4 h 0 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
1 h 55 m
€60-108
PHL · 11 km
DetroitDTW, DET, YIP
4 h 0 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
DenverDEN, APA
1 h 50 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
2 h 40 m
€154-209
LAS · 4 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
3 h 30 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
SeoulICN, GMP
12 h 0 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureLas VegasPhiladelphia
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 m12 m
Main airportHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinationsPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLas VegasPhiladelphia
City population641,9031,603,797
People per km²1,8434,339
Museums within 10 km2154
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre4975

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.