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Philae temple on the Nile, Aswan
AswanPhilae temple on the Nile
The adobe New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
Santa FeThe adobe New Mexico Museum of Art

Photos: Aswan by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Santa Fe by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Aswan or Santa Fe?

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 Aswan for

  • prices
  • beaches

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

Choose Santa Fe for

  • live music and the arts
  • nature and the outdoors
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Santa Fe’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. Aswan 10, Santa Fe 5: Aswan leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Aswan 30, Santa Fe 62: Santa Fe leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Aswan 64, Santa Fe 66: Santa Fe leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Aswan 8, Santa Fe 22: Santa Fe leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Aswan 45, Santa Fe 80: Santa Fe leads by 35 points.
Day trips. Aswan 52, Santa Fe 70: Santa Fe leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Aswan 32, Santa Fe 45: Santa Fe leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Aswan and Santa Fe are level on 40.
Shopping & style. Aswan 30, Santa Fe 62: Santa Fe leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Aswan 92, Santa Fe 30: Aswan leads by 62 points.
Live music & performing arts. Aswan 14, Santa Fe 55: Santa Fe leads by 41 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Aswan 40, Santa Fe 55: Santa Fe leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Aswan and Santa Fe.

Your match

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

Aswan
38match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

Santa Fe
Best match
49match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Aswan in July

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

Santa Fe in July

31 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
60 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
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

Santa Fe's station stands 199 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Santa Fe 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. Aswan: 1991-2020 normals, Asswan (18 km from centre). Santa Fe: 1991-2020 normals, Santa Fe / Cieneguilla (12.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAswanSanta Fe
Official languageArabic-
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180911
Elevation99 m2,134 m
Main airportAswan International Airport (ASW)16 km from centre2 non-stop destinationsSanta Fe Municipal Airport (SAF)12 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAswanSanta Fe
City population401,89087,505
People per km²1,072645
Museums within 10 km310
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10

Where else could you go?

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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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.