VacationSelector

Las Vegas or Rio de Janeiro?

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 places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Rio de Janeiro
✓ Best match
69
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 VegasRio de Janeiro
Beaches & swimming. Rio de Janeiro leads by 100 points.100
Las VegasRio de Janeiro
Score0100
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km061
Coast distance372 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Las Vegas leads by 8 points.8
Las VegasRio de Janeiro
Score6254
Restaurants within 2 km of centre915804
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2416
Museums & heritage. Rio de Janeiro leads by 50 points.50
Las VegasRio de Janeiro
Score1969
Museums within 10 km24110
Museums within 2 km of centre451
Share of museums within 2 km %1746
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Las Vegas leads by 1 points.1
Las VegasRio de Janeiro
Score5857
Drinking venues within 4 km793818
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre485509
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6162
Nightclubs within 4 km9050
Nature & day trips. Las Vegas leads by 1 points.1
Las VegasRio de Janeiro
Score6362
Protected land share 50 km %5021
Landscape blanket share 50 km %017
Land share of disc %10057
Park area within 2 km7 hectares113 hectares
Good for families. Rio de Janeiro leads by 25 points.25
Las VegasRio de Janeiro
Score3459
Tourist attractions within 2 km1930
Park area within 2 km7 hectares113 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Rio de Janeiro leads by 5 points.5
Las VegasRio de Janeiro
Score5156
Notable places within 2 km7598
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rio de Janeiro leads by 38 points.38
Las VegasRio de Janeiro
Score4381
Price level global10046.1
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Rio de Janeiro leads by 13 points.13
Las VegasRio de Janeiro
Score7285
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 40.3 °C24 °C to 28.4 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 21 mm42 mm to 232 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
Rio de Janeiro
28
28
28
27
25
24
24
25
25
26
26
27
Sea temperature, °C
Las Vegas
No coastline within reach
Rio de Janeiro
25
25
25
25
24
23
22
21
21
22
23
24
Rainfall, mm
Las Vegas
14
21
11
5
2
1
9
8
8
8
8
11
Rio de Janeiro
208
151
173
101
71
49
45
42
69
108
220
232
Daylight, hours per day
Las Vegas
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Rio de Janeiro
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14

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). Rio de Janeiro: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromLas VegasRio de Janeiro
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 55 m
€242-269
LAS · 4 km
9 h 45 m
€609-699
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
4 h 20 m
€261-438
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
GIG · 12 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
2 h 40 m
€154-209
LAS · 4 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
GIG · 12 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
4 h 0 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
9 h 40 m
no fares
GIG · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
11 h 55 m
€915-1205
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 35 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
11 h 35 m
€996-1109
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
4 h 55 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
GIG · 12 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
3 h 0 m
€166-315
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
GIG · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 55 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
11 h 30 m
€957-1014
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
10 h 45 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
11 h 55 m
€900-974
1 stop
GIG · 12 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 VegasRio de Janeiro
Official languagePortuguese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number911Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation610 m31 m
Main airportHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinationsRio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim International Airport (GIG)12 km from centre59 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLas VegasRio de Janeiro
City population641,9036,211,223
People per km²1,8434,930
Museums within 10 km2170
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre4927
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months

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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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.