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Colourful shopfronts in the city centre, Cork
CorkColourful shopfronts in the city centre
The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple

Photos: Cork by Selim Karadayı, Pexels License; Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Cork 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 Cork for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Luxor for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • wellness

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. Cork 25, Luxor 6: Cork leads by 19 points.
Food & drink. Cork 58, Luxor 30: Cork leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Cork 40, Luxor 95: Luxor leads by 55 points.
Nightlife. Cork 40, Luxor 10: Cork leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cork 62, Luxor 32: Cork leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Cork 68, Luxor 62: Cork leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Cork 50, Luxor 30: Cork leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Cork 58, Luxor 35: Cork leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Cork 40, Luxor 25: Cork leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Cork 33, Luxor 90: Luxor leads by 57 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cork 45, Luxor 10: Cork leads by 35 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cork 22, Luxor 28: Luxor leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cork and Luxor.

Your match

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

Cork
Best match
45match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife with your weighting.

Luxor
38match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Cork in July

19 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
86 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
16 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

Cork's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

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. Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre). Luxor: 1998-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Luxor (6.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCorkLuxor
Official languageEnglish, IrishArabic
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Egyptian Pound (EGP)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112Police 122, ambulance 123, fire 180
Elevation0 m89 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkLuxor
City population222,333202,232
People per km²5,961486
Museums within 10 km54
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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.