VacationSelector

Las Vegas or Tokyo?

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 year-round weather and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Tokyo
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nightlife 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 VegasTokyo
Beaches & swimming. Tokyo leads by 21 points.21
Las VegasTokyo
Score021
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km01
Coast distance372 km5 km
Water distance—5 km
Places to eat. Tokyo leads by 28 points.28
Las VegasTokyo
Score6290
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9156,936
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2425
Museums & heritage. Tokyo leads by 47 points.47
Las VegasTokyo
Score1966
Museums within 10 km24302
Museums within 2 km of centre452
Share of museums within 2 km %1717
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Tokyo leads by 37 points.37
Las VegasTokyo
Score5895
Drinking venues within 4 km7936,895
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4853,033
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6144
Nightclubs within 4 km9058
Nature & day trips. Las Vegas leads by 5 points.5
Las VegasTokyo
Score6358
Protected land share 50 km %50—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10085
Park area within 2 km7 hectares85 hectares
Good for families. Tokyo leads by 37 points.37
Las VegasTokyo
Score3471
Tourist attractions within 2 km1940
Park area within 2 km7 hectares85 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km49
Sights concentration. Tokyo leads by 9 points.9
Las VegasTokyo
Score5160
Notable places within 2 km75121
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tokyo leads by 27 points.27
Las VegasTokyo
Score4370
Price level global10062.4
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. Las Vegas leads by 8 points.8
Las VegasTokyo
Score7264
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 40.3 °C10 °C to 31.5 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 21 mm57 mm to 237 mm
Dry months120
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
Tokyo
10
11
14
19
24
26
30
32
28
22
17
12
Sea temperature, °C
Las Vegas
No coastline within reach
Tokyo
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Las Vegas
14
21
11
5
2
1
9
8
8
8
8
11
Tokyo
60
57
117
134
140
168
157
155
221
237
97
58
Daylight, hours per day
Las Vegas
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Tokyo
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Las Vegas
No sunshine record
Tokyo
6
6
6
6
6
4
5
6
4
4
5
6

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). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromLas VegasTokyo
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
1 h 5 m
€76-164
LAS · 4 km
11 h 0 m
€789-943
HND · 18 km
SeoulICN, GMP
12 h 0 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
2 h 10 m
€124-187
NRT · 56 km
San FranciscoSFO
1 h 25 m
€91-219
LAS · 4 km
10 h 25 m
€755-991
1 stop
HND · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 55 m
€242-269
LAS · 4 km
13 h 30 m
€813-1004
HND · 18 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 30 m
€171-225
LAS · 4 km
12 h 35 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
2 h 40 m
€154-209
LAS · 4 km
12 h 55 m
€966-988
1 stop
HND · 18 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
2 h 35 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
9 h 30 m
€595-735
1 stop
NRT · 56 km
San DiegoSAN, CLD
1 h 10 m
€90-110
LAS · 4 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
11 h 40 m
€786-939
1 stop
HND · 18 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
3 h 30 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
13 h 55 m
no fares
NRT · 56 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 VegasTokyo
Official language–Japanese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation610 m6 m
Main airportHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLas VegasTokyo
City population641,90314,264,798
People per km²1,8436,501
Museums within 10 km21191
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre49125
Swim season, months above 21 °C–4 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.