VacationSelector

Las Vegas or Santiago?

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 sights concentration with your weighting.

Santiago
✓ Best match
55
match

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.

Las VegasSantiago
Beaches & swimming. Las Vegas and Santiago are level on 0.
Las VegasSantiago
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance372 km89 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Santiago leads by 10 points.10
Las VegasSantiago
Score6272
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9151,317
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2432
Museums & heritage. Santiago leads by 26 points.26
Las VegasSantiago
Score1945
Museums within 10 km2487
Museums within 2 km of centre430
Share of museums within 2 km %1734
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Santiago leads by 3 points.3
Las VegasSantiago
Score5861
Drinking venues within 4 km793912
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre485542
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6159
Nightclubs within 4 km90112
Nature & day trips. Las Vegas leads by 11 points.11
Las VegasSantiago
Score6352
Protected land share 50 km %5017
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km7 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Santiago leads by 15 points.15
Las VegasSantiago
Score3449
Tourist attractions within 2 km1912
Park area within 2 km7 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km43
Sights concentration. Las Vegas leads by 3 points.3
Las VegasSantiago
Score5148
Notable places within 2 km7562
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Santiago leads by 38 points.38
Las VegasSantiago
Score4381
Price level global10046.2
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Santiago leads by 13 points.13
Las VegasSantiago
Score7285
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 40.3 °C14.3 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 21 mm0 mm to 87 mm
Dry months128
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
Santiago
28
27
26
21
18
15
14
16
19
22
25
27
Rainfall, mm
Las Vegas
14
21
11
5
2
1
9
8
8
8
8
11
Santiago
0
2
5
16
46
87
52
44
27
11
6
3
Daylight, hours per day
Las Vegas
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Santiago
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Las Vegas
No sunshine record
Santiago
11
9
8
6
5
3
4
5
6
8
9
11

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). Santiago: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago Q. Normal (3.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLas VegasSantiago
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
1 h 5 m
€76-164
LAS · 4 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
3 h 30 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
4 h 20 m
€261-438
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 55 m
€242-269
LAS · 4 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
2 h 40 m
€154-209
LAS · 4 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 35 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
4 h 55 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
4 h 0 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
3 h 0 m
€166-315
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
SCL · 14 km
OrlandoMCO, SFB, ORL
4 h 30 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
8 h 50 m
no fares
SCL · 14 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 VegasSantiago
Official languageSpanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Chilean Peso (CLP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCL220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC-4, UTC-3 in summer
Emergency number911Police 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132
Elevation610 m575 m
Main airportHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)14 km from centre68 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLas VegasSantiago
City population641,9036,257,516
People per km²1,8437,468
Museums within 10 km2154
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre4964

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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. 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.