Las Vegas or Vancouver?
Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.
Your match
Wins on year-round weather and sights concentration with your weighting.
Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families 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.
Beaches & swimming. Vancouver leads by 60 points.60
| Las Vegas | Vancouver | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 0 | 60 |
| Swim season months | 0 | 0 |
| Beaches 10 km | 0 | 109 |
| Coast distance | 372 km | 1 km |
| Water distance | — | 1 km |
Places to eat. Vancouver leads by 12 points.12
| Las Vegas | Vancouver | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 62 | 74 |
| Restaurants within 2 km of centre | 915 | 1,330 |
| Effective number of cuisines within 2 km | 24 | 35 |
Museums & heritage. Vancouver leads by 15 points.15
| Las Vegas | Vancouver | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 19 | 34 |
| Museums within 10 km | 24 | 27 |
| Museums within 2 km of centre | 4 | 15 |
| Share of museums within 2 km % | 17 | 56 |
| Unesco sites within 50 km | 0 | 0 |
Nightlife. Las Vegas leads by 1 points.1
| Las Vegas | Vancouver | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 58 | 57 |
| Drinking venues within 4 km | 793 | 848 |
| Drinking venues within 2 km of centre | 485 | 602 |
| Share of drinking venues within 2 km % | 61 | 71 |
| Nightclubs within 4 km | 90 | 44 |
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 14 points.14
| Las Vegas | Vancouver | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 63 | 77 |
| Protected land share 50 km % | 50 | 19 |
| Landscape blanket share 50 km % | 0 | 0 |
| Land share of disc % | 100 | 60 |
| Park area within 2 km | 7 hectares | 103 hectares |
Good for families. Vancouver leads by 19 points.19
| Las Vegas | Vancouver | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 34 | 53 |
| Tourist attractions within 2 km | 19 | 15 |
| Park area within 2 km | 7 hectares | 103 hectares |
| Theme parks within 30 km | 4 | 3 |
Sights concentration. Las Vegas leads by 3 points.3
| Las Vegas | Vancouver | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 51 | 48 |
| Notable places within 2 km | 75 | 63 |
| Min wikipedia languages | 5 | 5 |
Value for money. Vancouver leads by 11 points.11
| Las Vegas | Vancouver | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 43 | 54 |
| Price level global | 100 | 84 |
| Daily budget | — | — |
Year-round weather. Las Vegas leads by 19 points.19
| Las Vegas | Vancouver | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 72 | 53 |
| Monthly daytime high | 13.9 °C to 40.3 °C | 7.3 °C to 23 °C |
| Monthly rainfall | 1 mm to 21 mm | 42 mm to 245 mm |
| Dry months | 12 | 0 |
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.
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). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).
Getting there
| Flying from | Las Vegas | Vancouver |
|---|---|---|
| Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY | 1 h 5 m €76-164 LAS · 4 km | 2 h 45 m €147-217 1 stop YVR · 9 km |
| San FranciscoSFO | 1 h 25 m €91-219 LAS · 4 km | 2 h 10 m no fares YVR · 9 km |
| ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1 | 3 h 30 m €171-225 LAS · 4 km | 4 h 0 m no fares YVR · 9 km |
| PhoenixPHX, AZA | 1 h 10 m no fares LAS · 4 km | 3 h 0 m no fares YVR · 9 km |
| TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ | 4 h 20 m €261-438 1 stop LAS · 4 km | 4 h 35 m €210-223 1 stop YVR · 9 km |
| New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA | 4 h 55 m €242-269 LAS · 4 km | 5 h 15 m €353-356 YVR · 9 km |
| SeattleSEA, BFI | 2 h 20 m €132-243 1 stop LAS · 4 km | 55 m no fares YVR · 9 km |
| Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC | 3 h 30 m no fares LAS · 4 km | 5 h 20 m no fares YVR · 9 km |
| FrankfurtFRA, HHN | 11 h 15 m no fares LAS · 4 km | 10 h 10 m €743-810 1 stop YVR · 9 km |
| SeoulICN, GMP | 12 h 0 m no fares LAS · 4 km | 10 h 20 m €629-762 1 stop YVR · 9 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
| Measure | Las Vegas | Vancouver |
|---|---|---|
| Official language | – | French, English |
| Currency | US Dollar (USD) | Canadian Dollar (CAD) |
| Sockets | AB120 V, 60 Hz | AB120 V, 60 Hz |
| Driving side | Right | Right |
| Time zone | UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer | UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer |
| Emergency number | 911 | 911 |
| Elevation | 610 m | 2 m |
| Main airport | Harry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinations | Vancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations |
| Public holidays this year | 11 days | 11 days |
By the numbers
| Measure | Las Vegas | Vancouver |
|---|---|---|
| City population | 641,903 | 662,248 |
| People per km² | 1,843 | 5,759 |
| Museums within 10 km | 21 | 26 |
| UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km | 0 | 0 |
| Distinct cuisines in the centre | 49 | 85 |
| Swim season, months above 21 °C | – | None |
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