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Cairo or Ubud?

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

Rice terraces and palms at Tegallalang, Ubud
Ubud

Photo: Pinterpandai, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped

Your match

Cairo
50
match

Wins on culture and sights and nightlife with your weighting.

Ubud
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on wellness 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.

CairoUbud
Beaches & swimming. Ubud leads by 30 points.30
Food & drink. Cairo leads by 5 points.5
Culture & sights. Cairo leads by 38 points.38
Nightlife. Cairo leads by 34 points.34
Nature & outdoors. Ubud leads by 46 points.46
Day trips. Ubud leads by 2 points.2
Good for families. Ubud leads by 12 points.12
Getting around. Cairo leads by 25 points.25
Shopping & style. Cairo leads by 8 points.8
Affordability. Cairo leads by 13 points.13
Live music & performing arts. Ubud leads by 5 points.5
Wellness & relaxation. Ubud leads by 81 points.81
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cairo and Ubud.

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
JulyCairoUbud
Daytime high36 °C29 °C
Night-time low23 °C24 °C
Rainfall in the month0 mm27 mm
Sunshine12 hours a day9 hours a day
Sea temperatureNo sea27 °C
Daylight14 hours a day12 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
Ubud
31
31
31
31
31
30
29
29
30
31
32
31
Sea temperature, °C
Cairo
No coastline within reach
Ubud
29
29
29
29
28
28
27
26
27
27
28
29
Rainfall, mm
Cairo
6
5
10
1
1
0
0
0
0
1
1
7
Ubud
396
289
222
125
76
38
27
12
30
74
132
295
Daylight, hours per day
Cairo
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Ubud
13
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Cairo
7
7
9
9
11
11
12
11
10
10
9
7
Ubud
7
6
7
8
9
8
9
9
9
9
8
6

Where the figures come from

Ubud's temperatures are measured 29 km from the centre, at Denpasar / Ngurah-Rai.

Ubud's station stands 209 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cairo: 1991-2020 normals, Helwan (21.9 km from centre). Ubud: 1991-2020 normals, Denpasar / Ngurah-Rai (29 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCairoUbud
JakartaCGK, HLP
11 h 10 m
no fares
CAI · 17 km
1 h 50 m
€146-173
DPS · 29 km
JeddahJED
2 h 5 m
€158-202
CAI · 17 km
11 h 10 m
€700-720
1 stop
DPS · 29 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€154-167
CAI · 17 km
12 h 50 m
€633-726
DPS · 29 km
Abu DhabiAUH
3 h 30 m
€191-269
1 stop
CAI · 17 km
9 h 30 m
€560-729
DPS · 29 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 30 m
€644-746
1 stop
CAI · 17 km
7 h 5 m
€286-290
1 stop
DPS · 29 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
4 h 5 m
€245-328
1 stop
CAI · 17 km
14 h 45 m
€655-1139
1 stop
DPS · 29 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
3 h 30 m
€262-290
CAI · 17 km
9 h 30 m
€461-573
1 stop
DPS · 29 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
10 h 30 m
no fares
CAI · 17 km
5 h 55 m
€254-317
DPS · 29 km
New DelhiDEL
5 h 50 m
no fares
CAI · 17 km
7 h 30 m
€449-537
DPS · 29 km
AmsterdamAMS
4 h 30 m
no fares
CAI · 17 km
15 h 0 m
€615-646
DPS · 29 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 2026-11 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

MeasureCairoUbud
Official languageArabicIndonesian
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+8
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180112
Elevation23 m210 m
Main airportCairo International Airport (CAI)17 km from centre127 non-stop destinationsDenpasar I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport (DPS)29 km from centre63 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days-

By the numbers

MeasureCairoUbud
City population9,801,536-
People per km²18,564-
Museums within 10 km4814
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
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.