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Hot-air balloons over Cappadocia at sunrise, Goreme
GoremeHot-air balloons over Cappadocia at sunrise
The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple

Photos: Goreme by Guerrero De la Luz, Pexels License; Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Goreme 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 Goreme for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • families

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

Choose Luxor for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • food and drink

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. Goreme 3, Luxor 6: Luxor leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. Goreme 20, Luxor 30: Luxor leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Goreme 45, Luxor 95: Luxor leads by 50 points.
Nightlife. Goreme 5, Luxor 10: Luxor leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Goreme 74, Luxor 32: Goreme leads by 42 points.
Day trips. Goreme 70, Luxor 62: Goreme leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Goreme 40, Luxor 30: Goreme leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Goreme 40, Luxor 35: Goreme leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Goreme 22, Luxor 25: Luxor leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Goreme 58, Luxor 90: Luxor leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Goreme and Luxor are level on 10.
Wellness & relaxation. Goreme 42, Luxor 28: Goreme leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Goreme and Luxor.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Goreme
36match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and wellness 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.

Goreme in July

30 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Luxor in July

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

Goreme's station stands 160 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. Goreme: 1991-2020 normals, Nevsehir (10.2 km from centre). Luxor: 1998-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Luxor (6.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGoremeLuxor
Official languageTurkishArabic
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Egyptian Pound (EGP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112Police 122, ambulance 123, fire 180
Elevation1,100 m89 m
Main airportKayseri Erkilet International Airport (ASR)60 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureGoremeLuxor
City population2,000202,232
People per km²20486
Museums within 10 km54
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.