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Praia Mole in Florianopolis, Florianopolis
FlorianopolisPraia Mole in Florianopolis
The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple

Photos: Florianopolis by Papa Pic, CC0; Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Florianopolis 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 Florianopolis for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Luxor for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • day trips

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. Florianopolis 85, Luxor 6: Florianopolis leads by 79 points.
Food & drink. Florianopolis 58, Luxor 30: Florianopolis leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Florianopolis 33, Luxor 95: Luxor leads by 62 points.
Nightlife. Florianopolis 60, Luxor 10: Florianopolis leads by 50 points.
Nature & outdoors. Florianopolis 78, Luxor 32: Florianopolis leads by 46 points.
Day trips. Florianopolis 50, Luxor 62: Luxor leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Florianopolis 60, Luxor 30: Florianopolis leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Florianopolis 28, Luxor 35: Luxor leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Florianopolis 33, Luxor 25: Florianopolis leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Florianopolis 60, Luxor 90: Luxor leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Florianopolis 28, Luxor 10: Florianopolis leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Florianopolis 45, Luxor 28: Florianopolis leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Florianopolis and Luxor.

Your match

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

Florianopolis
Best match
52match

Wins on beaches and nightlife 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.

Florianopolis in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
91 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
11 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

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. Florianopolis: 1991-2020 normals, Florianopolis (1.7 km from centre). Luxor: 1998-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Luxor (6.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFlorianopolisLuxor
Official languagePortugueseArabic
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)Egyptian Pound (EGP)
SocketsCN60 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193Police 122, ambulance 123, fire 180
Elevation3 m89 m
Main airportHercílio Luz International Airport (FLN)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorianopolisLuxor
City population587,486202,232
People per km²870486
Museums within 10 km114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.