VacationSelector

Las Vegas or Sofia?

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.

Sofia
✓ Best match
56
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 VegasSofia
Beaches & swimming. Las Vegas and Sofia are level on 0.
Las VegasSofia
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance372 km214 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Sofia leads by 2 points.2
Las VegasSofia
Score6264
Restaurants within 2 km of centre915845
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2428
Museums & heritage. Sofia leads by 38 points.38
Las VegasSofia
Score1957
Museums within 10 km2451
Museums within 2 km of centre440
Share of museums within 2 km %1778
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Sofia leads by 3 points.3
Las VegasSofia
Score5861
Drinking venues within 4 km793958
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre485608
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6163
Nightclubs within 4 km90102
Nature & day trips. Las Vegas leads by 12 points.12
Las VegasSofia
Score6351
Protected land share 50 km %5012
Landscape blanket share 50 km %04
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km7 hectares229 hectares
Good for families. Sofia leads by 21 points.21
Las VegasSofia
Score3455
Tourist attractions within 2 km1920
Park area within 2 km7 hectares229 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Sofia leads by 6 points.6
Las VegasSofia
Score5157
Notable places within 2 km75104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sofia leads by 56 points.56
Las VegasSofia
Score4399
Price level global10021.4
Daily budget€77
Year-round weather. Las Vegas leads by 8 points.8
Las VegasSofia
Score7264
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 40.3 °C3.5 °C to 28.4 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 21 mm36 mm to 78 mm
Dry months123
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
Sofia
4
7
11
17
21
25
28
28
23
18
11
5
Rainfall, mm
Las Vegas
14
21
11
5
2
1
9
8
8
8
8
11
Sofia
36
36
45
52
73
78
64
56
54
56
38
41
Daylight, hours per day
Las Vegas
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sofia
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Las Vegas
No sunshine record
Sofia
3
4
6
6
8
9
10
10
7
5
3
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). Sofia: 1991-2020 normals, Sofia Observ. (7.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLas VegasSofia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 35 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 55 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
10 h 45 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SOF · 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. 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 VegasSofia
Official languageBulgarian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation610 m560 m
Main airportHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinationsSofia Airport (SOF)8 km from centre94 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureLas VegasSofia
City population641,9031,213,134
People per km²1,8432,466
Museums within 10 km2142
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre4951

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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. 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.