VacationSelector

Las Vegas or Reykjavik?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Las Vegas
45
match

Wins on year-round weather and nightlife with your weighting.

Reykjavik
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage 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 VegasReykjavik
Beaches & swimming. Reykjavik leads by 60 points.60
Las VegasReykjavik
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km033
Coast distance372 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Las Vegas leads by 13 points.13
Las VegasReykjavik
Score6249
Restaurants within 2 km of centre915261
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2429
Museums & heritage. Reykjavik leads by 31 points.31
Las VegasReykjavik
Score1950
Museums within 10 km2434
Museums within 2 km of centre423
Share of museums within 2 km %1768
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Las Vegas leads by 31 points.31
Las VegasReykjavik
Score5827
Drinking venues within 4 km793192
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre485166
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6186
Nightclubs within 4 km9010
Nature & day trips. Las Vegas leads by 4 points.4
Las VegasReykjavik
Score6359
Protected land share 50 km %5016
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10056
Park area within 2 km7 hectares28 hectares
Good for families. Reykjavik leads by 8 points.8
Las VegasReykjavik
Score3442
Tourist attractions within 2 km1921
Park area within 2 km7 hectares28 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Las Vegas leads by 3 points.3
Las VegasReykjavik
Score5148
Notable places within 2 km7561
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Las Vegas leads by 2 points.2
Las VegasReykjavik
Score4341
Price level global100102.8
Daily budget€243
Year-round weather. Las Vegas leads by 35 points.35
Las VegasReykjavik
Score7237
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 40.3 °C3.2 °C to 14.9 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 21 mm41 mm to 97 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
Reykjavik
3
3
4
7
10
13
15
14
11
8
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Las Vegas
No coastline within reach
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Las Vegas
14
21
11
5
2
1
9
8
8
8
8
11
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Daylight, hours per day
Las Vegas
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Reykjavik
6
9
12
15
18
21
20
16
13
10
7
4
Sunshine, hours per day
Las Vegas
No sunshine record
Reykjavik
1
2
4
5
7
6
6
5
4
3
1
0

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). Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLas VegasReykjavik
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 35 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 55 m
€242-269
LAS · 4 km
5 h 35 m
€389-592
KEF · 37 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 30 m
€171-225
LAS · 4 km
6 h 15 m
€415-534
KEF · 37 km
BostonBOS, PSM
5 h 10 m
€236-259
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
4 h 35 m
€230-263
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
5 h 55 m
€406-422
KEF · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 55 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
2 h 20 m
€132-243
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
4 h 20 m
€261-438
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
5 h 35 m
€426-480
KEF · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
10 h 45 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
3 h 30 m
€313-393
2 stops
KEF · 37 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 VegasReykjavik
Official languageIcelandic
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Iceland Krona (ISK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC
Emergency number911112
Elevation610 m8 m
Main airportHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinationsKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLas VegasReykjavik
City population641,903138,772
People per km²1,843569
Museums within 10 km2123
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre4942
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. 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. 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.