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The church of La Compania under a blue sky, Arequipa
ArequipaThe church of La Compania under a blue sky
The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple

Photos: Arequipa by DocSlyper, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Arequipa or Luxor?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Arequipa for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Arequipa’s own page.

Choose Luxor for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Luxor’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Arequipa 8, Luxor 6: Arequipa leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Arequipa 66, Luxor 30: Arequipa leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. Arequipa 64, Luxor 95: Luxor leads by 31 points.
Nightlife. Arequipa 36, Luxor 10: Arequipa leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Arequipa 74, Luxor 32: Arequipa leads by 42 points.
Day trips. Arequipa 30, Luxor 62: Luxor leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Arequipa 35, Luxor 30: Arequipa leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Arequipa 54, Luxor 35: Arequipa leads by 19 points.
Shopping & style. Arequipa 44, Luxor 25: Arequipa leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Arequipa 82, Luxor 90: Luxor leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Arequipa 27, Luxor 10: Arequipa leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Arequipa 34, Luxor 28: Arequipa leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Arequipa and Luxor.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Arequipa
Best match
46match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and food and drink with your weighting.

Luxor
38match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Arequipa in July

21 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
11 hdaylight a day

Luxor in July

41 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Arequipa's station stands 203 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Luxor has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Arequipa: 1991-2020 normals, Arequipa (9.2 km from centre). Luxor: 1998-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Luxor (6.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureArequipaLuxor
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaArabic
CurrencySol (PEN)Egyptian Pound (EGP)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911Police 122, ambulance 123, fire 180
Elevation2,335 m89 m
Main airportRodríguez Ballón International Airport (AQP)7 km from centre2 non-stop destinationsLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureArequipaLuxor
City population1,008,290202,232
People per km²1,551486
Museums within 10 km34
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.