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The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign, Las Vegas
Las VegasThe Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign
A painted funicular on the hillside, Valparaiso
ValparaisoA painted funicular on the hillside

Photos: Las Vegas by Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Valparaiso by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Las Vegas or Valparaiso?

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
  • shopping
  • nightlife

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

Choose Valparaiso for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Valparaiso’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, Valparaiso 36: Valparaiso leads by 26 points.
Food & drink. Las Vegas 68, Valparaiso 50: Las Vegas leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Las Vegas 25, Valparaiso 62: Valparaiso leads by 37 points.
Nightlife. Las Vegas 88, Valparaiso 56: Las Vegas leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Las Vegas 68, Valparaiso 60: Las Vegas leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Las Vegas 25, Valparaiso 63: Valparaiso leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Las Vegas 25, Valparaiso 33: Valparaiso leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Las Vegas 38, Valparaiso 44: Valparaiso leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Las Vegas 64, Valparaiso 30: Las Vegas leads by 34 points.
Affordability. Las Vegas 35, Valparaiso 60: Valparaiso leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Las Vegas 78, Valparaiso 38: Las Vegas leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Las Vegas 40, Valparaiso 18: Las Vegas leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Las Vegas and Valparaiso.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Las Vegas
47match

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

Valparaiso
46match

Wins on day trips 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 seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Valparaiso in July

15 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
71 mmrain in the month
13 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Valparaiso has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre). Valparaiso: 2010-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Viña Del Mar / Montemar (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLas VegasValparaiso
Official language-Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Chilean Peso (CLP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCL220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC-4, UTC-3 in summer
Emergency number911Police 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132
Elevation610 m21 m
Main airportHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)87 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLas VegasValparaiso
City population641,903296,655
People per km²1,8436,180
Museums within 10 km2117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.