VacationSelector

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

Las Vegas
45
match

Wins on year-round weather and sights concentration with your weighting.

Vancouver
✓ Best match
57
match

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.

Las VegasVancouver
Beaches & swimming. Vancouver leads by 60 points.60
Las VegasVancouver
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km0109
Coast distance372 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Vancouver leads by 12 points.12
Las VegasVancouver
Score6274
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9151,330
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2435
Museums & heritage. Vancouver leads by 15 points.15
Las VegasVancouver
Score1934
Museums within 10 km2427
Museums within 2 km of centre415
Share of museums within 2 km %1756
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Las Vegas leads by 1 points.1
Las VegasVancouver
Score5857
Drinking venues within 4 km793848
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre485602
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6171
Nightclubs within 4 km9044
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 14 points.14
Las VegasVancouver
Score6377
Protected land share 50 km %5019
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10060
Park area within 2 km7 hectares103 hectares
Good for families. Vancouver leads by 19 points.19
Las VegasVancouver
Score3453
Tourist attractions within 2 km1915
Park area within 2 km7 hectares103 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km43
Sights concentration. Las Vegas leads by 3 points.3
Las VegasVancouver
Score5148
Notable places within 2 km7563
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Vancouver leads by 11 points.11
Las VegasVancouver
Score4354
Price level global10084
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Las Vegas leads by 19 points.19
Las VegasVancouver
Score7253
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 40.3 °C7.3 °C to 23 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 21 mm42 mm to 245 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
Vancouver
7
8
11
14
18
20
23
23
19
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Las Vegas
No coastline within reach
Vancouver
7
7
8
10
12
14
16
16
14
11
9
8
Rainfall, mm
Las Vegas
14
21
11
5
2
1
9
8
8
8
8
11
Vancouver
237
121
164
114
73
65
42
49
71
155
245
196
Daylight, hours per day
Las Vegas
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Vancouver
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Las Vegas
No sunshine record
Vancouver
2
3
4
6
8
7
10
9
7
4
2
2

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).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromLas VegasVancouver
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

MeasureLas VegasVancouver
Official languageFrench, English
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation610 m2 m
Main airportHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLas VegasVancouver
City population641,903662,248
People per km²1,8435,759
Museums within 10 km2126
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre4985
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.