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The Scott Monument and Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh
EdinburghThe Scott Monument and Princes Street Gardens
The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple

Photos: Edinburgh by Carlos Delgado, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh for

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

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

Choose Luxor for

  • prices
  • culture and sights

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. Edinburgh 22, Luxor 6: Edinburgh leads by 16 points.
Food & drink. Edinburgh 53, Luxor 30: Edinburgh leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Edinburgh 75, Luxor 95: Luxor leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Edinburgh 50, Luxor 10: Edinburgh leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. Edinburgh 75, Luxor 32: Edinburgh leads by 43 points.
Day trips. Edinburgh 75, Luxor 62: Edinburgh leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Edinburgh 62, Luxor 30: Edinburgh leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Edinburgh 74, Luxor 35: Edinburgh leads by 39 points.
Shopping & style. Edinburgh 50, Luxor 25: Edinburgh leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Edinburgh 30, Luxor 90: Luxor leads by 60 points.
Live music & performing arts. Edinburgh 72, Luxor 10: Edinburgh leads by 62 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Edinburgh 34, Luxor 28: Edinburgh leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Edinburgh and Luxor.

Your match

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

Edinburgh
Best match
56match

Wins on live music and the arts and nature and the outdoors 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.

Edinburgh in July

19 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
66 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
14 °Csea
17 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

Edinburgh 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.

Edinburgh's sunshine is measured 52 km from the centre, at Leuchars.

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. Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre). Luxor: 1998-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Luxor (6.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureEdinburghLuxor
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
Elevation47 m89 m
Main airportEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre163 non-stop destinationsLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureEdinburghLuxor
City population488,050202,232
People per km²1,884486
Museums within 10 km324
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
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). 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.