Fun Facts about Las Vegas

The number of visitors to Las Vegas has been rising steadily over the years. The highest number ever recorded was around 42 million in 2019. Unfortunately, that dropped significantly the following year due to the pandemic. Once things returned to normal, the number started rising again, with 2023 recording a new high of 32 million visitors. Most of these people go for holidays, which includes everything from guided tours of the Grand Canyon to helicopter tours of the city and surrounding areas to explore Las Vegas.

Contrary to popular opinion, only 15% of the people who visit Las Vegas fancy a day gambling at one of the Las Vegas casinos. The city has plenty of other destinations that non-gambling visitors could explore. For instance, you can tour the Hoover Dam with your family or get a much-needed retail therapy by going on a shopping spree in one of the city’s world-class shopping centres. You could also do a little bit of everything – visit popular destinations, luxury shop and take a day off to gamble at a casino.

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As a tourist attraction, Las Vegas is home to the highest number of antique collectors in a single city. That has made it a popular destination for many antique lovers. The most popular antique shops in the city include Gold and Silver Pawn Shop, Charleston Antique Mall and Antique Mall of America. With 23000 square feet, Charleston Antique Mall is the largest antique shop in the city, and it has plenty of goodies to interest fans.

An interesting fact about the famous Las Vegas Strip is that it is not part of the city, even though it bears its name. The strip is a 4.2-mile stretch lined by casinos and hotels. If you check the map, you will notice that the strip is actually a part of the unincorporated Clark County, outside the limits of Las Vegas. The story started in the 1950s when hoteliers and casino owners decided to build their businesses outside the city limits to avoid taxes. The Las Vegas Boulevard has remained a part of an unincorporated township till today. Proper parts of the city are places like North Las Vegas.

If you are ever in a hotel in Vegas or anywhere else, try to find the 13th floor. Chances are you won’t find it because it simply does not exist. Hoteliers in Las Vegas have also succumbed to this old-fashioned superstition, entirely erasing the 13th floor from their books. While that may seem a little drastic, it is a measure put in place to avoid alienating any superstitious clients. The number 13 is commonly associated with bad luck – a phobia known as ‘triskaidekaphobia.’ Similarly, some hotels skip the 4th floor due to similar superstitions, like the Venetian Las Vegas.

Las Vegas is a Spanish word for ‘The Meadows.’ The city was named in 1821 by a Spanish Pioneer, Rafael Rivera. Rivera was the first European to set foot in the area as he established the Old Spanish Trail. Considering its current desert state, it is pretty challenging to picture Las Vegas as a natural oasis with sprawling fields and rolling green hills, which was the case in the 19th century. Rivera saw the vibrant and spacious green fields with abundant local Las Vegas springs and named the area what we call it today.

With 300+ weddings per day, Las Vegas should probably be renamed ‘City of Love’ at this point. The high number of weddings is primarily attributed to the fact that many individuals prefer to tie the knot in the city because of the rich culture and the ease of securing a venue. Take a walk around the city and you will come across several walk-in wedding venues where you can get married within minutes. There is virtually everything you need for a memorable wedding day on site, including fresh flowers, limo services, photography and a wedding cake. Basically, you can organise a dream wedding within minutes, a feat considered virtually impossible in any other part of the world.

Las Vegas is widely considered the Gambling Capital of the World. But did you know it lost its title to Macau almost two decades ago? In 2006, Macau, the only place in China where gambling is legal, surpassed Las Vegas to become the world’s highest-grossing gambling centre. Over the years, the gap has widened even more, with the Chinese city hitting over $35 billion in revenues in 2019, nearly six times the revenues generated in the Las Vegas Strip the same year. Between 2020 and 2022, Las Vegas regained the title due to Covid restrictions at Macau. However, since the restrictions were lifted, Macau has reclaimed the title again.

Las Vegas is considered the brightest spot on Earth. The strip is lined with over 30 hotels with some of the brightest lights and neon you will ever see on a building and even the Las Vegas convention center. In November 2010, NASA published an aerial image of the city at night. The picture captured the surrounding tarmacs of McCarran International Airport and Nellis Air Force Base, which were all dark compared to the strip.

Las Vegas is one of the driest parts of the US, receiving about 4 inches of rain annually. Other parts of the country receive an average of 38 inches, meaning the city is incredibly dry. If you live in Las Vegas, you can expect sunny conditions for 295 days of the year. That leaves only 26 days for rain and relatively low precipitation in general. January, February, March, August and December are the only months with at least two days of rainfall each. For the other months, the rain comes once or zero days.