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I have lived well over half my life (40+ years) in the Chihuahuan Desert but have traveled through, hiked and camped in every major desert of the United States and Mexico. I have also traveled the entire length of the Atacama Desert in Chile by land. Las Vegas is located on the northern edge of the Mojave Desert.
At average elevations of between 2,500 and 5,000 feet, the Mojave is higher than the adjacent, and warmer, Sonoran Desert to the south, and like all this region even Las Vegas (in a low valley, at 2,000 feet) can become quite cool during winter.