Las Vegas or Rovaniemi?
Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.
Your match
Wins on nightlife and nature & day trips with your weighting.
Wins on value for money 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.
Beaches & swimming. Las Vegas and Rovaniemi are level on 0.
| Las Vegas | Rovaniemi | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 0 | 0 |
| Swim season months | 0 | 0 |
| Beaches 10 km | 0 | 13 |
| Coast distance | 372 km | 99 km |
| Water distance | — | — |
Places to eat. Las Vegas leads by 41 points.41
| Las Vegas | Rovaniemi | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 62 | 21 |
| Restaurants within 2 km of centre | 915 | 80 |
| Effective number of cuisines within 2 km | 24 | 14 |
Museums & heritage. Rovaniemi leads by 1 points.1
| Las Vegas | Rovaniemi | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 19 | 20 |
| Museums within 10 km | 24 | 8 |
| Museums within 2 km of centre | 4 | 7 |
| Share of museums within 2 km % | 17 | 88 |
| Unesco sites within 50 km | 0 | 0 |
Nightlife. Las Vegas leads by 54 points.54
| Las Vegas | Rovaniemi | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 58 | 4 |
| Drinking venues within 4 km | 793 | 52 |
| Drinking venues within 2 km of centre | 485 | 42 |
| Share of drinking venues within 2 km % | 61 | 81 |
| Nightclubs within 4 km | 90 | 3 |
Nature & day trips. Las Vegas leads by 47 points.47
| Las Vegas | Rovaniemi | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 63 | 16 |
| Protected land share 50 km % | 50 | 2 |
| Landscape blanket share 50 km % | 0 | 0 |
| Land share of disc % | 100 | 100 |
| Park area within 2 km | 7 hectares | 25 hectares |
Good for families. Las Vegas leads by 13 points.13
| Las Vegas | Rovaniemi | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 34 | 21 |
| Tourist attractions within 2 km | 19 | 2 |
| Park area within 2 km | 7 hectares | 25 hectares |
| Theme parks within 30 km | 4 | 2 |
Sights concentration. Las Vegas leads by 26 points.26
| Las Vegas | Rovaniemi | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 51 | 25 |
| Notable places within 2 km | 75 | 17 |
| Min wikipedia languages | 5 | 5 |
Value for money. Rovaniemi leads by 13 points.13
| Las Vegas | Rovaniemi | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 43 | 56 |
| Price level global | 100 | 81.6 |
| Daily budget | — | €184 |
Year-round weather. Las Vegas leads by 29 points.29
| Las Vegas | Rovaniemi | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 72 | 43 |
| Monthly daytime high | 13.9 °C to 40.3 °C | -7.9 °C to 20.9 °C |
| Monthly rainfall | 1 mm to 21 mm | 30 mm to 75 mm |
| Dry months | 12 | 5 |
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.
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). Rovaniemi: 2008-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rovaniemi Rautatieasema / Kuusela (0.6 km from centre).
Getting there
| Flying from | Las Vegas | Rovaniemi |
|---|---|---|
| LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2 | 10 h 35 m no fares LAS · 4 km | 3 h 15 m no fares RVN · 8 km |
| ParisCDG, ORY, BVA | 10 h 55 m no fares LAS · 4 km | 3 h 25 m no fares RVN · 8 km |
| ManchesterMAN | 10 h 15 m no fares LAS · 4 km | 3 h 10 m no fares KTT · 139 km |
| AmsterdamAMS | 10 h 45 m no fares LAS · 4 km | 3 h 0 m no fares RVN · 8 km |
| FrankfurtFRA, HHN | 11 h 15 m no fares LAS · 4 km | 3 h 5 m no fares RVN · 8 km |
| ZurichZRH | 11 h 25 m no fares LAS · 4 km | 3 h 25 m no fares RVN · 8 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.
Before you go
| Measure | Las Vegas | Rovaniemi |
|---|---|---|
| Official language | – | Finnish, Swedish |
| Currency | US Dollar (USD) | Euro (EUR) |
| Sockets | AB120 V, 60 Hz | CF230 V, 50 Hz |
| Driving side | Right | Right |
| Time zone | UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer | UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer |
| Emergency number | 911 | 112 |
| Elevation | 610 m | 88 m |
| Main airport | Harry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinations | Rovaniemi Airport (RVN)8 km from centre43 non-stop destinations |
| Public holidays this year | 11 days | 15 days |
By the numbers
| Measure | Las Vegas | Rovaniemi |
|---|---|---|
| City population | 641,903 | 65,329 |
| People per km² | 1,843 | 9 |
| Museums within 10 km | 21 | 6 |
| UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km | 0 | 0 |
| Distinct cuisines in the centre | 49 | 16 |
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