It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Las Vegas. But apparently not Christmasy enough to land the top of the list of most-festive holiday cities. But we have a holiday bone to pick with these results! You can see the cities that made the top ten below.
The list comes from Lawnstarter. They dropped their “2022’s Most-Festive Cities” recently and looked at 200 of the biggest cities in the country. They made their list based on things like who had the most holiday markets and the most holiday decoration shops. They also took into account who had the most department stores and shopping centers and who had the most skating rinks.
And finally, and here’s where we have Christmas beef with these guys, they looked at average annual snowfall. Specifically they were searching for cities that look the most like they came out of a warm and fuzzy Hallmark movie. Have you ever seen one of those movies without snow? Me neither.
So here we are, trying our darnest to bring the holiday spirit to the world, and we get booted from the number one spot for festiveness. Based on something we have no control over! Lawnstarter, you’re on our naughty list.
But here’s why this is all in jest, and we’re actually not upset about these results. Think about it. Two of the criteria for the most festive city are pretty much based on weather. Average snowfall and number of ice skating rinks. So…in order to top this list, we’d also have to be scraping snow off our driveways and plugging in our car batteries so they don’t freeze over.
Yeah…no thanks. I mean, snow is pretty and all and we might like it when we’re visiting somewhere. And, let’s be honest, if we really wanted to, we could rally all our snow-making machines to cover the city in a blanket of wonderment. But we’d rather take the 60-degree December days.
So, Lawnstarter. This is how we Las Vegans see it. We might be number two on your list, but considering the trade off, we totally win. 😉
–Wendy Rush, 96.3KKLZ Las Vegas
1. New York City
Overall Festivity Score: 82.99
New York City topped the list of most holiday festivals, most holiday markets and most holiday decoration shops.
2. Las Vegas
Overall Festivity Score: 50.66.
Las Vegas was fourth in most holiday decoration shops and second in most shopping centers and department stores. We like our retail therapy!
3. Los Angeles
Overall Festivity Score: 49.96
Our neighbors to the west came in high for most holiday decoration shops, but one of the lowest in number of holiday markets. Step it up, L.A.!
4. Chicago
Overall Festivity Score: 49.18
The only highest or lowest list Chicago came in on was fifth most shopping centers and department stores. Maybe the wind blew their results away.
5. Denver
Overall Festivity Score: 39.87
Denver tied for second in most holiday markets. Christmas shopping, anyone?
6. Houston
Overall Festivity Score: 37.25
Houston is not just known for their Texans cheerleaders during the holidays. They also came in first on the list of most shopping centers and department stores.
7. San Antonio
Overall Festivity Score: 35.66
San Antonio has the fourth most shopping centers and department stores, according to this list.
8. San Diego
Overall Festivity Score: 33.88
San Diego came in first for most Santa‘s on the beach. Okay we made that up…but it’s probably true.
9. Charlotte
Overall Festivity Score: 33.53
You will most-definitely see a Santa on the field of Carolina Panthers game during the holidays. You’ll also most likely see a holiday festival or two. Charlotte tied for second for the most.
10. Philadelphia
Overall Festivity Score: 32.69
Philadelphia is the place to be if you want to ice skate. They came in fourth for the most skating rinks.
