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Las Vegas or West Palm Beach?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Las Vegas
✓ Best match
45
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
42
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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 VegasWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 88 points.88
Las VegasWest Palm Beach
Score088
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km010
Coast distance372 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Las Vegas leads by 25 points.25
Las VegasWest Palm Beach
Score6237
Restaurants within 2 km of centre915262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2414
Museums & heritage. Las Vegas leads by 2 points.2
Las VegasWest Palm Beach
Score1917
Museums within 10 km245
Museums within 2 km of centre43
Share of museums within 2 km %1760
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Las Vegas leads by 38 points.38
Las VegasWest Palm Beach
Score5820
Drinking venues within 4 km793132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre48590
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6168
Nightclubs within 4 km9010
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 6 points.6
Las VegasWest Palm Beach
Score6369
Protected land share 50 km %5015
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10045
Park area within 2 km7 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Las Vegas leads by 13 points.13
Las VegasWest Palm Beach
Score3421
Tourist attractions within 2 km193
Park area within 2 km7 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Las Vegas leads by 39 points.39
Las VegasWest Palm Beach
Score5112
Notable places within 2 km758
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Las Vegas and West Palm Beach are level on 43.
Las VegasWest Palm Beach
Score4343
Price level global100100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 3 points.3
Las VegasWest Palm Beach
Score7275
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 40.3 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 21 mm67 mm to 217 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
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Las Vegas
No coastline within reach
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Las Vegas
14
21
11
5
2
1
9
8
8
8
8
11
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Las Vegas
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11

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). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLas VegasWest Palm Beach
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 55 m
€242-269
LAS · 4 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
1 h 5 m
€76-164
LAS · 4 km
5 h 5 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
4 h 35 m
€230-263
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 30 m
€171-225
LAS · 4 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
San FranciscoSFO
1 h 25 m
€91-219
LAS · 4 km
5 h 35 m
€349-373
2 stops
FLL · 72 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
4 h 45 m
€187-299
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
4 h 20 m
€261-438
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
4 h 0 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
3 h 30 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
3 h 5 m
€278-290
MIA · 105 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 105 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 VegasWest Palm Beach
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation610 m6 m
Main airportHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLas VegasWest Palm Beach
City population641,903117,415
People per km²1,843786
Museums within 10 km214
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre4918
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months

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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.