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The pyramids of Giza, Cairo
CairoThe pyramids of Giza
The pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach, St. Pete Beach
St. Pete BeachThe pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach

Photos: Cairo by Ricardo Liberato, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; St. Pete Beach by Jeffrey Eisen, Pexels License.

Cairo or St. Pete Beach?

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 Cairo for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • shopping

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

Choose St. Pete Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Pete Beach’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. Cairo 10, St. Pete Beach 87: St. Pete Beach leads by 77 points.
Food & drink. Cairo 60, St. Pete Beach 40: Cairo leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Cairo 96, St. Pete Beach 18: Cairo leads by 78 points.
Nightlife. Cairo 48, St. Pete Beach 28: Cairo leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cairo 30, St. Pete Beach 57: St. Pete Beach leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Cairo 66, St. Pete Beach 58: Cairo leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Cairo 32, St. Pete Beach 72: St. Pete Beach leads by 40 points.
Getting around. Cairo 35, St. Pete Beach 30: Cairo leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Cairo 58, St. Pete Beach 20: Cairo leads by 38 points.
Affordability. Cairo 95, St. Pete Beach 32: Cairo leads by 63 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cairo 50, St. Pete Beach 20: Cairo leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cairo 15, St. Pete Beach 42: St. Pete Beach leads by 27 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cairo and St. Pete Beach.

Your match

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

Cairo
Best match
50match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

St. Pete Beach
42match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Cairo in July

36 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

St. Pete Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
185 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
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

St. Pete Beach 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.

St. Pete Beach's sunshine is measured 34 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cairo: 1991-2020 normals, Helwan (21.9 km from centre). St. Pete Beach: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (12.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCairoSt. Pete Beach
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 m2 m
Main airportCairo International Airport (CAI)17 km from centre127 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)21 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCairoSt. Pete Beach
City population9,801,5368,879
People per km²18,564173
Museums within 10 km482
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. 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. 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.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.