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The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign, Las Vegas
Las VegasThe Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign
Erasmus Bridge and the skyline, Rotterdam
RotterdamErasmus Bridge and the skyline

Photos: Las Vegas by Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Rotterdam by Bas Geerlings, Pexels License.

Las Vegas or Rotterdam?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Rotterdam for

  • day trips
  • families
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Rotterdam’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, Rotterdam 27: Rotterdam leads by 17 points.
Food & drink. Las Vegas 68, Rotterdam 52: Las Vegas leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Las Vegas 25, Rotterdam 58: Rotterdam leads by 33 points.
Nightlife. Las Vegas 88, Rotterdam 52: Las Vegas leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. Las Vegas 68, Rotterdam 44: Las Vegas leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Las Vegas 25, Rotterdam 85: Rotterdam leads by 60 points.
Good for families. Las Vegas 25, Rotterdam 66: Rotterdam leads by 41 points.
Getting around. Las Vegas 38, Rotterdam 78: Rotterdam leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Las Vegas 64, Rotterdam 55: Las Vegas leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Las Vegas 35, Rotterdam 38: Rotterdam leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Las Vegas 78, Rotterdam 58: Las Vegas leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Las Vegas 40, Rotterdam 42: Rotterdam leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Las Vegas and Rotterdam.

Your match

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

Las Vegas
47match

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

Rotterdam
Best match
55match

Wins on day trips and families 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

Rotterdam in July

22 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
91 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Rotterdam 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.

Rotterdam's sunshine is measured 52 km from the centre, at De Bilt.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLas VegasRotterdam
Official language-Dutch
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation610 m10 m
Main airportHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLas VegasRotterdam
City population641,903664,311
People per km²1,8432,080
Museums within 10 km2140
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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.