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Hobart below kunanyi/Mount Wellington, Hobart
HobartHobart below kunanyi/Mount Wellington
The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple

Photos: Hobart by Gary Houston, CC0; Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Hobart 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 Hobart for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

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

Choose Luxor for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • 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. Hobart 30, Luxor 6: Hobart leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. Hobart 60, Luxor 30: Hobart leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Hobart 56, Luxor 95: Luxor leads by 39 points.
Nightlife. Hobart 30, Luxor 10: Hobart leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hobart 85, Luxor 32: Hobart leads by 53 points.
Day trips. Hobart 60, Luxor 62: Luxor leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Hobart 56, Luxor 30: Hobart leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Hobart 45, Luxor 35: Hobart leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Hobart 38, Luxor 25: Hobart leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Hobart 35, Luxor 90: Luxor leads by 55 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hobart 45, Luxor 10: Hobart leads by 35 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hobart 40, Luxor 28: Hobart leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hobart and Luxor.

Your match

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

Hobart
Best match
48match

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

Hobart in July

13 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
42 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
13 °Csea
9 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. Hobart: 1991-2020 normals, Hobart (2.3 km from centre). Luxor: 1998-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Luxor (6.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHobartLuxor
Official languageEnglishArabic
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Egyptian Pound (EGP)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number000Police 122, ambulance 123, fire 180
Elevation54 m89 m
Main airportHobart International Airport (HBA)17 km from centre9 non-stop destinationsLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureHobartLuxor
City population197,451202,232
People per km²116486
Museums within 10 km84
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.