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Cardiff Castle, Cardiff
CardiffCardiff Castle
Turquoise water off Giftun Island, Hurghada
HurghadaTurquoise water off Giftun Island

Photos: Cardiff by Tevfik Teker, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Hurghada by Andrey Korchagin, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Cardiff or Hurghada?

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 Cardiff for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

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

Choose Hurghada for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Hurghada’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. Cardiff 30, Hurghada 84: Hurghada leads by 54 points.
Food & drink. Cardiff 45, Hurghada 34: Cardiff leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Cardiff 58, Hurghada 14: Cardiff leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Cardiff 50, Hurghada 40: Cardiff leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cardiff 70, Hurghada 72: Hurghada leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Cardiff 72, Hurghada 30: Cardiff leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Cardiff 58, Hurghada 62: Hurghada leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Cardiff 66, Hurghada 22: Cardiff leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Cardiff 50, Hurghada 24: Cardiff leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Cardiff 46, Hurghada 80: Hurghada leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cardiff 57, Hurghada 10: Cardiff leads by 47 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cardiff 27, Hurghada 44: Hurghada leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cardiff and Hurghada.

Your match

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

Cardiff
Best match
52match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights with your weighting.

Hurghada
43match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Cardiff in July

20 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Hurghada in July

37 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °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

Cardiff 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.

Cardiff's sunshine is measured 83 km from the centre, at Lyneham.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre). Hurghada: 1991-2020 normals, Hurguada (15.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCardiffHurghada
Official languageEnglishArabic
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Egyptian Pound (EGP)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999Police 122, ambulance 123, fire 180
Elevation41 m11 m
Main airportCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre30 non-stop destinationsHurghada International Airport (HRG)9 km from centre111 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureCardiffHurghada
City population383,536214,247
People per km²2,734-
Museums within 10 km91
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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.