The Fourth is the hottest weekend of the Las Vegas year, in both senses. It lands in the middle of genuine desert summer, which makes a pool less a nice idea than the only sane way to spend a day outdoors, and it is the one holiday whose shape changes completely from year to year.
When it lands next
- 2027 Sunday 4 July
- 2028 Tuesday 4 July
- 2029 Wednesday 4 July
The fourth itself, plus whichever weekend it touches.
What is different about this weekend
The same venues, the same city, behaving differently enough to be worth planning around.
Plan around the heat, not the party
Daytime highs in early July sit well above 40C. Shade, water and somewhere to sit stop being luxuries. This is the weekend a cabana earns its price.
The date moves, so the weekend moves
Because the Fourth is a fixed date rather than a Monday, some years it makes a four-day weekend and some years it is a Wednesday with nothing either side of it.
Holiday rates apply either way
Midweek or not, the door and the tables price as a holiday. Check which single day each venue is billing as its Fourth of July party, because they do not all pick the same one.
How the weekend runs
- Venues pick their own headline day. When the Fourth falls midweek, some run the day itself and some run the nearest Saturday.
- Hotel pools are busiest in the morning, before the heat peaks. The dayclubs take over from around midday.
- Fireworks go up across the valley after dark, and several Strip hotel pool decks have a view of them. Almost every dayclub has closed by then.
- The day after is the quietest day of the whole holiday. If you want a pool to yourself, that is it.
Getting in
- Confirm the day before you book anything else. A ticket for the wrong day of this particular holiday is the most common mistake people make with it.
- Tables are worth more here than at any other holiday because of the shade, not the status.
- Hydration is not a joke in July. Venues sell water, and the ones with misting systems are noticeably more comfortable than the ones without.
The pools that run it
Every Strip dayclub opens for this one. These are the rooms, with what we last confirmed about each.
What has changed since the last time you read about this
The archive’s Fourth of July coverage runs thin compared with the May and September holidays, and the venues it names most often tell you how long ago it was written. Liquid at Aria is still there. The Hard Rock pool is not, at least not under that name: the hotel became Virgin Hotels in 2021 and the pool went with it.
Why there are no prices on this page
Door and table rates for this occasion are set per venue, change every year, and are usually announced a few weeks out. Publishing last year’s numbers would be worse than publishing none. Each venue page carries what we have actually confirmed, alongside the date we confirmed it.
Questions people actually ask
Is it too hot to enjoy?
It is hot enough that the plan matters. In the water or in shade, it is the best day of the year to be at a Vegas pool. Queuing on tarmac at two in the afternoon in July is genuinely unpleasant.
Where can fireworks be seen from?
Displays go up at several points across the valley rather than one central show. High floors and upper pool decks facing the right way do well. Do not plan a rooftop view without checking which direction it faces.
Does it price like Memorial Day?
Close to it on the headline day, and noticeably less on the days either side, which is not true of the May and September holidays.
Check what is actually open today
Opening days and hours move through the season. The live list is the one to trust over anything written months ahead, this page included.
