{"id":84696,"date":"2025-12-11T23:38:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T23:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/84696\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T23:38:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T23:38:06","slug":"dallas-ordinance-banning-vaping-in-public-spaces-in-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/84696\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas ordinance banning vaping in public spaces in effect"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dallas’ fun entertainment and nightlife scenes have helped the city improve in WalletHub’s just-released ranking<\/a> of the most fun American cities in 2025. Dallas now stands tall as the 26th most fun U.S. city this year.<\/p>\n

WalletHub’s “Most Fun Cities in America (2025)” study compared 182 U.S. cities across 65 metrics \u2014 spanning from the number of sports venues, music venues, and shopping centers per capita to the average cost for a restaurant meal \u2014 to determine how “fun” each city is. The metrics were split among three main categories: entertainment and recreation, nightlife and parties, and cost.<\/p>\n

Las Vegas, Nevada continued its multi-year streak as the No. 1 most fun American city. <\/p>\n

Across the three key dimensions, Dallas scored the highest for its nightlife and parties rank (No. 23), but its entertainment and recreation ranks (No. 35) and costs (No. 99) still have room for improvement. But overall, Dallas’ level of “fun” is far higher than most U.S. cities.<\/p>\n

Dallas’ current “fun” status is five places higher<\/a> than its 2024 rank as the No. 31 most fun American city.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in North Texas, Fort Worth ranked as the 60th most fun American city, while Arlington (No. 71) and Plano (No. 78) lagged farther behind.<\/p>\n

Texas’ most fun cities
Houston overtook<\/a> Austin as the 6th most fun city in America and the No. 1 most fun Texas city for 2025. Austin, which ranked No. 6 last year, dropped two spots and now ranks No. 8 on the list. <\/p>\n

Three more Texas cities that appeared in the top 100 include: San Antonio (No. 23), El Paso (No. 62), and Corpus Christi (No. 94).<\/p>\n

“The decision of where to live could save or cost you a lot of money and fun, so it\u2019s fair to wonder what makes a fun city,” the report’s author wrote. “In a city with enough variety, you won\u2019t have to compromise with your friends, family, or even yourself about the next fun activity to do alone or together.”<\/p>\n

Surprisingly, both Chicago and New York City dropped out of the top 10 most fun American cities. Chicago now ranks as No. 11, and New York City ranks 14th on the list.<\/p>\n

WalletHub’s top 10 most fun U.S. cities in 2025 are:<\/p>\n

No. 1 \u2013 Las Vegas, NevadaNo. 2 \u2013 Orlando, FloridaNo. 3 \u2013 Miami, FloridaNo. 4 \u2013 Atlanta, GeorgiaNo. 5 \u2013 New Orleans, LouisianaNo. 6 \u2013 Houston, TexasNo. 7 \u2013 San Francisco, CaliforniaNo. 8 \u2013 Austin, TexasNo. 9 \u2013 Portland, OregonNo. 10 \u2013 Cincinnati, Ohio<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas’ fun entertainment and nightlife scenes have helped the city improve in WalletHub’s just-released ranking of the most…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,287],"class_list":{"0":"post-84696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-headlines","10":"tag-dallas-news","11":"tag-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}