VacationSelector

Las Vegas or York?

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 nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

York
41
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money 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 VegasYork
Beaches & swimming. Las Vegas and York are level on 0.
Las VegasYork
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km02
Coast distance372 km50 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Las Vegas leads by 8 points.8
Las VegasYork
Score6254
Restaurants within 2 km of centre915361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2431
Museums & heritage. York leads by 27 points.27
Las VegasYork
Score1946
Museums within 10 km2418
Museums within 2 km of centre416
Share of museums within 2 km %1789
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Las Vegas leads by 15 points.15
Las VegasYork
Score5843
Drinking venues within 4 km793450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre485353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6178
Nightclubs within 4 km9014
Nature & day trips. Las Vegas leads by 30 points.30
Las VegasYork
Score6333
Protected land share 50 km %5017
Landscape blanket share 50 km %016
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km7 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. York leads by 9 points.9
Las VegasYork
Score3443
Tourist attractions within 2 km1913
Park area within 2 km7 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km43
Sights concentration. Las Vegas leads by 12 points.12
Las VegasYork
Score5139
Notable places within 2 km7537
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. York leads by 11 points.11
Las VegasYork
Score4354
Price level global10084.9
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Las Vegas leads by 16 points.16
Las VegasYork
Score7256
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 40.3 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 21 mm39 mm to 66 mm
Dry months121
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
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Rainfall, mm
Las Vegas
14
21
11
5
2
1
9
8
8
8
8
11
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Las Vegas
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Las Vegas
No sunshine record
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
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). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromLas VegasYork
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
4 h 20 m
€261-438
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 55 m
€242-269
LAS · 4 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
4 h 0 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
OrlandoMCO, SFB, ORL
4 h 30 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 55 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
AmsterdamAMS
10 h 45 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 35 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 104 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 VegasYork
Official languageEnglish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 999
Elevation610 m25 m
Main airportHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureLas VegasYork
City population641,903208,400
People per km²1,843766
Museums within 10 km2124
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre4954

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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. 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.