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The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign, Las Vegas
Las VegasThe Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign
The City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia
ValenciaThe City of Arts and Sciences

Photos: Las Vegas by Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Valencia by Francesco Ungaro, Pexels License.

Las Vegas or Valencia?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Valencia for

  • beaches
  • families
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Valencia’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, Valencia 78: Valencia leads by 68 points.
Food & drink. Las Vegas 68, Valencia 74: Valencia leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Las Vegas 25, Valencia 68: Valencia leads by 43 points.
Nightlife. Las Vegas 88, Valencia 66: Las Vegas leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Las Vegas 68, Valencia 60: Las Vegas leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Las Vegas 25, Valencia 70: Valencia leads by 45 points.
Good for families. Las Vegas 25, Valencia 75: Valencia leads by 50 points.
Getting around. Las Vegas 38, Valencia 76: Valencia leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Las Vegas 64, Valencia 57: Las Vegas leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Las Vegas 35, Valencia 57: Valencia leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Las Vegas 78, Valencia 55: Las Vegas leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Las Vegas 40, Valencia 42: Valencia leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Las Vegas and Valencia.

Your match

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

Las Vegas
47match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife with your weighting.

Valencia
Best match
65match

Wins on beaches and families 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

Valencia in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
7 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLas VegasValencia
Official language-Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation610 m15 m
Main airportHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLas VegasValencia
City population641,903840,792
People per km²1,8436,242
Museums within 10 km2145
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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. 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.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.