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The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign, Las Vegas
Las VegasThe Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign
Valletta from the water, Valletta
VallettaValletta from the water

Photos: Las Vegas by Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Valletta by Pho Tomass, Pexels License.

Las Vegas or Valletta?

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

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • shopping

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

Choose Valletta for

  • beaches
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Valletta’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, Valletta 68: Valletta leads by 58 points.
Food & drink. Las Vegas 68, Valletta 55: Las Vegas leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Las Vegas 25, Valletta 76: Valletta leads by 51 points.
Nightlife. Las Vegas 88, Valletta 46: Las Vegas leads by 42 points.
Nature & outdoors. Las Vegas 68, Valletta 56: Las Vegas leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Las Vegas 25, Valletta 76: Valletta leads by 51 points.
Good for families. Las Vegas 25, Valletta 58: Valletta leads by 33 points.
Getting around. Las Vegas 38, Valletta 62: Valletta leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Las Vegas 64, Valletta 38: Las Vegas leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Las Vegas 35, Valletta 50: Valletta leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Las Vegas 78, Valletta 44: Las Vegas leads by 34 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Las Vegas 40, Valletta 32: Las Vegas leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Las Vegas and Valletta.

Your match

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

Las Vegas
47match

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

Valletta
Best match
55match

Wins on beaches and culture and sights 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

Valletta in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Las VegasValletta

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLas VegasValletta
Official language-English, Maltese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation610 m56 m
Main airportHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre113 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLas VegasValletta
City population641,9035,197
People per km²1,8436,496
Museums within 10 km2116
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C-6 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.