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Fort San Pedro in Cebu City, Cebu
CebuFort San Pedro in Cebu City
The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple

Photos: Cebu by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Cebu 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 Cebu for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

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

Choose Luxor for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • 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. Cebu 60, Luxor 6: Cebu leads by 54 points.
Food & drink. Cebu 58, Luxor 30: Cebu leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Cebu 40, Luxor 95: Luxor leads by 55 points.
Nightlife. Cebu 46, Luxor 10: Cebu leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cebu 60, Luxor 32: Cebu leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Cebu 44, Luxor 62: Luxor leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Cebu 45, Luxor 30: Cebu leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Cebu 26, Luxor 35: Luxor leads by 9 points.
Shopping & style. Cebu 44, Luxor 25: Cebu leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Cebu 80, Luxor 90: Luxor leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cebu 25, Luxor 10: Cebu leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cebu 50, Luxor 28: Cebu leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cebu and Luxor.

Your match

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

Cebu
Best match
48match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Luxor
38match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Cebu in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
205 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Luxor in July

41 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
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

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. Cebu: 1991-2020 normals, Mactan (7.1 km from centre). Luxor: 1998-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Luxor (6.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCebuLuxor
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishArabic
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Egyptian Pound (EGP)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911Police 122, ambulance 123, fire 180
Elevation135 m89 m
Main airportMactan Cebu International Airport (CEB)9 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureCebuLuxor
City population965,332202,232
People per km²3,065486
Museums within 10 km54
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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.