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The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign, Las Vegas
Las VegasThe Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign
The Hofburg and Heldenplatz, Vienna
ViennaThe Hofburg and Heldenplatz

Photos: Las Vegas by Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Vienna by C.Stadler/Bwag, CC BY-SA 3.0 AT, cropped.

Las Vegas or Vienna?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • shopping

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

Choose Vienna for

  • culture and sights
  • families
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Vienna’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, Vienna 27: Vienna leads by 17 points.
Food & drink. Las Vegas and Vienna are level on 68.
Culture & sights. Las Vegas 25, Vienna 89: Vienna leads by 64 points.
Nightlife. Las Vegas 88, Vienna 50: Las Vegas leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Las Vegas 68, Vienna 62: Las Vegas leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Las Vegas 25, Vienna 74: Vienna leads by 49 points.
Good for families. Las Vegas 25, Vienna 77: Vienna leads by 52 points.
Getting around. Las Vegas 38, Vienna 90: Vienna leads by 52 points.
Shopping & style. Las Vegas 64, Vienna 62: Las Vegas leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Las Vegas 35, Vienna 44: Vienna leads by 9 points.
Live music & performing arts. Las Vegas 78, Vienna 96: Vienna leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Las Vegas 40, Vienna 58: Vienna leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Las Vegas and Vienna.

Your match

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

Las Vegas
47match

Wins on nightlife and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Vienna
Best match
66match

Wins on culture and sights 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
14 hdaylight a day

Vienna in July

27 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
78 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Las VegasVienna

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLas VegasVienna
Official language-German, Austrian Sign Language
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 m151 m
Main airportHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre202 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLas VegasVienna
City population641,9032,028,289
People per km²1,8434,890
Museums within 10 km21152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03

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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. 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.