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Galena Street with the runs of Aspen Mountain, Aspen
AspenGalena Street with the runs of Aspen Mountain
Philae temple on the Nile, Aswan
AswanPhilae temple on the Nile

Photos: Aspen by Moroder, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Aswan by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Aspen or Aswan?

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 Aspen for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife

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

Choose Aswan for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Aswan’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. Aspen 6, Aswan 10: Aswan leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Aspen 45, Aswan 30: Aspen leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Aspen 22, Aswan 64: Aswan leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Aspen 40, Aswan 8: Aspen leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Aspen 95, Aswan 45: Aspen leads by 50 points.
Day trips. Aspen 30, Aswan 52: Aswan leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Aspen 55, Aswan 32: Aspen leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Aspen 72, Aswan 40: Aspen leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Aspen 50, Aswan 30: Aspen leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Aspen 5, Aswan 92: Aswan leads by 87 points.
Live music & performing arts. Aspen 50, Aswan 14: Aspen leads by 36 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Aspen 50, Aswan 40: Aspen leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Aspen and Aswan.

Your match

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

Aspen
Best match
43match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Aswan
38match

Wins on prices 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.

Aspen in July

27 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
33 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Aswan in July

42 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AspenAswan

Where the figures come from

Aspen 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. Aspen: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Aspen / Woody Creek (5.2 km from centre). Aswan: 1991-2020 normals, Asswan (18 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAspenAswan
Official language-Arabic
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Egyptian Pound (EGP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911Police 122, ambulance 123, fire 180
Elevation2,405 m99 m
Main airportAspen-Pitkin County Airport (Sardy Field) (ASE)5 km from centre11 non-stop destinationsAswan International Airport (ASW)16 km from centre2 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureAspenAswan
City population7,004401,890
People per km²7001,072
Museums within 10 km23
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01

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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). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.