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Wat Pho, Bangkok
BangkokWat Pho
The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple

Photos: Bangkok by Lu Zhao, Pexels License; Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Bangkok 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 Bangkok for

  • nightlife
  • food and drink
  • shopping

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

Choose Luxor for

  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors
  • 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. Bangkok 12, Luxor 6: Bangkok leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Bangkok 95, Luxor 30: Bangkok leads by 65 points.
Culture & sights. Bangkok 80, Luxor 95: Luxor leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Bangkok 85, Luxor 10: Bangkok leads by 75 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bangkok 25, Luxor 32: Luxor leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Bangkok 72, Luxor 62: Bangkok leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Bangkok 50, Luxor 30: Bangkok leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Bangkok 50, Luxor 35: Bangkok leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Bangkok 80, Luxor 25: Bangkok leads by 55 points.
Affordability. Bangkok 85, Luxor 90: Luxor leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bangkok 52, Luxor 10: Bangkok leads by 42 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bangkok 75, Luxor 28: Bangkok leads by 47 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bangkok and Luxor.

Your match

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

Bangkok
Best match
63match

Wins on nightlife and food and drink with your weighting.

Luxor
38match

Wins on culture and sights 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.

Bangkok in July

34 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
184 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Luxor in July

41 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
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

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. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Luxor: 1998-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Luxor (6.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBangkokLuxor
Official languageThaiArabic
CurrencyBaht (THB)Egyptian Pound (EGP)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199Police 122, ambulance 123, fire 180
Elevation2 m89 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-15 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokLuxor
City population5,676,648202,232
People per km²3,619486
Museums within 10 km594
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.