VacationSelector

Las Vegas or Rotterdam?

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.

Rotterdam
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on museums & heritage and beaches & swimming 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 VegasRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. Rotterdam leads by 37 points.37
Las VegasRotterdam
Score037
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km022
Coast distance372 km24 km
Water distance—24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 10 points.10
Las VegasRotterdam
Score6272
Restaurants within 2 km of centre915862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2446
Museums & heritage. Rotterdam leads by 41 points.41
Las VegasRotterdam
Score1960
Museums within 10 km2441
Museums within 2 km of centre420
Share of museums within 2 km %1749
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Las Vegas leads by 9 points.9
Las VegasRotterdam
Score5849
Drinking venues within 4 km793542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre485378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6170
Nightclubs within 4 km9040
Nature & day trips. Las Vegas leads by 21 points.21
Las VegasRotterdam
Score6342
Protected land share 50 km %5010
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10079
Park area within 2 km7 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Rotterdam leads by 28 points.28
Las VegasRotterdam
Score3462
Tourist attractions within 2 km1927
Park area within 2 km7 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km48
Sights concentration. Las Vegas and Rotterdam are level on 51.
Las VegasRotterdam
Score5151
Notable places within 2 km7574
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rotterdam leads by 15 points.15
Las VegasRotterdam
Score4358
Price level global10079.2
Daily budget—€181
Year-round weather. Las Vegas leads by 16 points.16
Las VegasRotterdam
Score7256
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 40.3 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 21 mm42 mm to 85 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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Las Vegas
No coastline within reach
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Las Vegas
14
21
11
5
2
1
9
8
8
8
8
11
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Las Vegas
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Las Vegas
No sunshine record
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

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). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLas VegasRotterdam
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 55 m
€242-269
LAS · 4 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
1 h 5 m
€76-164
LAS · 4 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 55 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
ManchesterMAN
10 h 15 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 30 m
€171-225
LAS · 4 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
San DiegoSAN, CLD
1 h 10 m
€90-110
LAS · 4 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
4 h 35 m
€230-263
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
San FranciscoSFO
1 h 25 m
€91-219
LAS · 4 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
3 h 30 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
SeoulICN, GMP
12 h 0 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 47 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 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 or 911
Elevation610 m10 m
Main airportHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 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
Distinct cuisines in the centre4977
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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.