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Cairo or Fort Lauderdale?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

The pyramids of Giza, Cairo
Cairo

Photo: Ricardo Liberato, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped

The skyline and yachts on the canals, Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale

Photo: KeanoManu, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Cairo
50
match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

Fort Lauderdale
50
match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

CairoFort Lauderdale
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 78 points.78
Food & drink. Cairo leads by 13 points.13
Culture & sights. Cairo leads by 68 points.68
Nightlife. Fort Lauderdale leads by 4 points.4
Nature & outdoors. Fort Lauderdale leads by 32 points.32
Day trips. Cairo leads by 8 points.8
Good for families. Fort Lauderdale leads by 34 points.34
Getting around. Cairo leads by 3 points.3
Shopping & style. Cairo leads by 6 points.6
Affordability. Cairo leads by 63 points.63
Live music & performing arts. Cairo leads by 8 points.8
Wellness & relaxation. Fort Lauderdale leads by 25 points.25
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cairo and Fort Lauderdale.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyCairoFort Lauderdale
Daytime high36 °C32 °C
Night-time low23 °C26 °C
Rainfall in the month0 mm166 mm
Sunshine12 hours a dayNo figure
Sea temperatureNo sea29 °C
Daylight14 hours a day14 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Cairo
19
21
24
29
33
35
36
36
34
30
26
21
Fort Lauderdale
24
26
27
29
30
31
32
32
31
30
27
26
Sea temperature, °C
Cairo
No coastline within reach
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Cairo
6
5
10
1
1
0
0
0
0
1
1
7
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Daylight, hours per day
Cairo
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Cairo
7
7
9
9
11
11
12
11
10
10
9
7
Fort Lauderdale
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cairo: 1991-2020 normals, Helwan (21.9 km from centre). Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromCairoFort Lauderdale
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
11 h 15 m
€624-1013
1 stop
CAI · 17 km
2 h 40 m
€140-271
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 45 m
€147-173
CAI · 17 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
11 h 30 m
no fares
CAI · 17 km
3 h 0 m
€167-168
FLL · 7 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
12 h 15 m
no fares
CAI · 17 km
2 h 55 m
€119-159
FLL · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€154-167
CAI · 17 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
11 h 40 m
no fares
CAI · 17 km
2 h 25 m
€164-177
FLL · 7 km
MadridMAD
4 h 35 m
€274-412
1 stop
CAI · 17 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
3 h 30 m
€262-290
CAI · 17 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 41 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
4 h 25 m
€249-480
CAI · 17 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 50 m
€240-288
CAI · 17 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 41 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-10 to 2026-12, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureCairoFort Lauderdale
Official languageArabic-
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180911
Elevation23 m11 m
Main airportCairo International Airport (CAI)17 km from centre127 non-stop destinationsFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre136 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCairoFort Lauderdale
City population9,801,536182,760
People per km²18,5641,829
Museums within 10 km486
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.