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Cairo or Hong Kong?

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 junk Duk Ling in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Photo: LN9267, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

Your match

Cairo
50
match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Hong Kong
✓ Best match
67
match

Wins on getting around and nature and the outdoors 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.

CairoHong Kong
Beaches & swimming. Hong Kong leads by 40 points.40
Food & drink. Hong Kong leads by 30 points.30
Culture & sights. Cairo leads by 36 points.36
Nightlife. Hong Kong leads by 20 points.20
Nature & outdoors. Hong Kong leads by 50 points.50
Day trips. Hong Kong leads by 2 points.2
Good for families. Hong Kong leads by 43 points.43
Getting around. Hong Kong leads by 62 points.62
Shopping & style. Hong Kong leads by 30 points.30
Affordability. Cairo leads by 68 points.68
Live music & performing arts. Hong Kong leads by 5 points.5
Wellness & relaxation. Hong Kong leads by 27 points.27
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cairo and Hong Kong.

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
JulyCairoHong Kong
Daytime high36 °C31 °C
Night-time low23 °C26 °C
Rainfall in the month0 mm381 mm
Sunshine12 hours a day7 hours a day
Sea temperatureNo sea29 °C
Daylight14 hours a day13 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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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Cairo
19
21
24
29
33
35
36
36
34
30
26
21
Hong Kong
19
20
22
26
29
30
31
31
31
28
25
21
Sea temperature, °C
Cairo
No coastline within reach
Hong Kong
20
20
21
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Rainfall, mm
Cairo
6
5
10
1
1
0
0
0
0
1
1
7
Hong Kong
23
39
70
144
280
493
381
453
331
92
36
31
Daylight, hours per day
Cairo
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Hong Kong
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Cairo
7
7
9
9
11
11
12
11
10
10
9
7
Hong Kong
5
3
3
4
5
5
7
6
6
6
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cairo: 1991-2020 normals, Helwan (21.9 km from centre). Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromCairoHong Kong
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 30 m
€644-746
1 stop
CAI · 17 km
3 h 0 m
€127-156
HKG · 25 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 55 m
no fares
CAI · 17 km
4 h 5 m
€279-371
HKG · 25 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
10 h 30 m
no fares
CAI · 17 km
2 h 10 m
€147-156
HKG · 25 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 45 m
€147-173
CAI · 17 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
RiyadhRUH
2 h 35 m
€154-163
CAI · 17 km
8 h 35 m
no fares
SZX · 54 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€154-167
CAI · 17 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
ChengduTFU, CTU
8 h 45 m
no fares
CAI · 17 km
2 h 10 m
€214-253
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
4 h 25 m
€249-480
CAI · 17 km
11 h 55 m
€586-713
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 50 m
€240-288
CAI · 17 km
12 h 0 m
€570-666
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
15 h 5 m
no fares
CAI · 17 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
HKG · 25 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

MeasureCairoHong Kong
Official languageArabicStandard Chinese
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Hong Kong Dollar (HKD)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+8
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180999
Elevation23 m7 m
Main airportCairo International Airport (CAI)17 km from centre127 non-stop destinationsHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre148 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureCairoHong Kong
City population9,801,5367,413,070
People per km²18,564-
Museums within 10 km4839
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C-8 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.