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The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign, Las Vegas
Las VegasThe Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign
Painted colonial houses in the Pelourinho, Salvador
SalvadorPainted colonial houses in the Pelourinho

Photos: Las Vegas by Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Salvador by Paul R. Burley, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Las Vegas or Salvador?

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

  • shopping
  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Salvador for

  • beaches
  • culture and sights
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Salvador’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, Salvador 84: Salvador leads by 74 points.
Food & drink. Las Vegas 68, Salvador 66: Las Vegas leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Las Vegas 25, Salvador 74: Salvador leads by 49 points.
Nightlife. Las Vegas 88, Salvador 70: Las Vegas leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Las Vegas 68, Salvador 52: Las Vegas leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Las Vegas 25, Salvador 56: Salvador leads by 31 points.
Good for families. Las Vegas 25, Salvador 42: Salvador leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Las Vegas 38, Salvador 42: Salvador leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Las Vegas 64, Salvador 42: Las Vegas leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Las Vegas 35, Salvador 70: Salvador leads by 35 points.
Live music & performing arts. Las Vegas 78, Salvador 63: Las Vegas leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Las Vegas 40, Salvador 32: Las Vegas leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Las Vegas and Salvador.

Your match

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

Las Vegas
47match

Wins on shopping and nightlife with your weighting.

Salvador
Best match
58match

Wins on beaches and culture and sights 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

Salvador in July

27 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
201 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
26 °Csea
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Las VegasSalvador

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre). Salvador: 1991-2020 normals, Salvador (4.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLas VegasSalvador
Official language-Portuguese
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 m8 m
Main airportHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinationsDeputado Luiz Eduardo Magalhães International Airport (SSA)20 km from centre31 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLas VegasSalvador
City population641,9032,417,678
People per km²1,8433,489
Museums within 10 km2149
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.