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The Brandenburg Gate, Berlin
BerlinThe Brandenburg Gate
The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple

Photos: Berlin by Claudia Solano, Pexels License; Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Berlin 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 Berlin for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

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

Choose Luxor for

  • prices
  • culture and sights

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. Berlin 38, Luxor 6: Berlin leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Berlin 66, Luxor 30: Berlin leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. Berlin 86, Luxor 95: Luxor leads by 9 points.
Nightlife. Berlin 98, Luxor 10: Berlin leads by 88 points.
Nature & outdoors. Berlin 50, Luxor 32: Berlin leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Berlin 66, Luxor 62: Berlin leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Berlin 76, Luxor 30: Berlin leads by 46 points.
Getting around. Berlin 82, Luxor 35: Berlin leads by 47 points.
Shopping & style. Berlin 68, Luxor 25: Berlin leads by 43 points.
Affordability. Berlin 48, Luxor 90: Luxor leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. Berlin 90, Luxor 10: Berlin leads by 80 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Berlin 55, Luxor 28: Berlin leads by 27 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Berlin and Luxor.

Your match

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

Berlin
Best match
69match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Luxor
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.

Berlin in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
76 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
16 hdaylight a day

Luxor in July

41 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
0 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

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. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Luxor: 1998-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Luxor (6.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBerlinLuxor
Official languageGermanArabic
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Egyptian Pound (EGP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112Police 122, ambulance 123, fire 180
Elevation34 m89 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinLuxor
City population3,700,577202,232
People per km²4,153486
Museums within 10 km1574
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41

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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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.