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Las Vegas or Tampa?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Las Vegas
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips and sights concentration with your weighting.

Tampa
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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 VegasTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 75 points.75
Las VegasTampa
Score075
Swim season months08
Beaches 10 km010
Coast distance372 km1 km
Water distance—1 km
Places to eat. Las Vegas leads by 8 points.8
Las VegasTampa
Score6254
Restaurants within 2 km of centre915359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2431
Museums & heritage. Tampa leads by 8 points.8
Las VegasTampa
Score1927
Museums within 10 km2413
Museums within 2 km of centre410
Share of museums within 2 km %1777
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Las Vegas leads by 19 points.19
Las VegasTampa
Score5839
Drinking venues within 4 km793324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre485227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6170
Nightclubs within 4 km9026
Nature & day trips. Las Vegas leads by 33 points.33
Las VegasTampa
Score6330
Protected land share 50 km %506
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10072
Park area within 2 km7 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Las Vegas leads by 4 points.4
Las VegasTampa
Score3430
Tourist attractions within 2 km193
Park area within 2 km7 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km45
Sights concentration. Las Vegas leads by 30 points.30
Las VegasTampa
Score5121
Notable places within 2 km7513
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Las Vegas and Tampa are level on 43.
Las VegasTampa
Score4343
Price level global100100
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 3 points.3
Las VegasTampa
Score7275
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 40.3 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 21 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months121
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
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Las Vegas
No coastline within reach
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Las Vegas
14
21
11
5
2
1
9
8
8
8
8
11
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Las Vegas
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Las Vegas
No sunshine record
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7

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). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLas VegasTampa
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
1 h 5 m
€76-164
LAS · 4 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 30 m
€171-225
LAS · 4 km
2 h 35 m
€176-204
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 55 m
€242-269
LAS · 4 km
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
4 h 35 m
€230-263
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
4 h 45 m
€187-299
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
2 h 25 m
€95-125
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
4 h 20 m
€261-438
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
CincinnatiCVG, LUK
3 h 50 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
RaleighRDU
4 h 30 m
€217-294
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
3 h 30 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 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 VegasTampa
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation610 m30 m
Main airportHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLas VegasTampa
City population641,903384,959
People per km²1,843848
Museums within 10 km216
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre4947
Swim season, months above 21 °C–8 months

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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. 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.