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The Cathedral of Sant'Agata, Catania
CataniaThe Cathedral of Sant'Agata
The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple

Photos: Catania by Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Catania or Luxor?

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 Catania for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife

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

Choose Luxor for

  • culture and sights
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Luxor’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. Catania 72, Luxor 6: Catania leads by 66 points.
Food & drink. Catania 77, Luxor 30: Catania leads by 47 points.
Culture & sights. Catania 62, Luxor 95: Luxor leads by 33 points.
Nightlife. Catania 60, Luxor 10: Catania leads by 50 points.
Nature & outdoors. Catania 83, Luxor 32: Catania leads by 51 points.
Day trips. Catania 84, Luxor 62: Catania leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Catania 50, Luxor 30: Catania leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Catania 48, Luxor 35: Catania leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Catania 42, Luxor 25: Catania leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Catania 60, Luxor 90: Luxor leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Catania 55, Luxor 10: Catania leads by 45 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Catania 30, Luxor 28: Catania leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Catania and Luxor.

Your match

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

Catania
Best match
60match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Luxor
38match

Wins on culture and sights 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.

Catania in July

31 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
9 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Luxor in July

41 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
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

Catania's sunshine is measured 88 km from the centre, at Messina.

Luxor 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Fontanarossa (5.2 km from centre). Luxor: 1998-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Luxor (6.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCataniaLuxor
Official languageItalianArabic
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Egyptian Pound (EGP)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112Police 122, ambulance 123, fire 180
Elevation7 m89 m
Main airportCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre96 non-stop destinationsLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureCataniaLuxor
City population311,584202,232
People per km²1,704486
Museums within 10 km254
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.