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The Japanese Covered Bridge, Hoi An
Hoi AnThe Japanese Covered Bridge
The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple

Photos: Hoi An by François Guerraz, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Hoi An 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 Hoi An for

  • beaches
  • food and drink
  • wellness

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

Choose Luxor for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • prices

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. Hoi An 72, Luxor 6: Hoi An leads by 66 points.
Food & drink. Hoi An 68, Luxor 30: Hoi An leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Hoi An 66, Luxor 95: Luxor leads by 29 points.
Nightlife. Hoi An 28, Luxor 10: Hoi An leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hoi An 63, Luxor 32: Hoi An leads by 31 points.
Day trips. Hoi An 50, Luxor 62: Luxor leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Hoi An 58, Luxor 30: Hoi An leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Hoi An 48, Luxor 35: Hoi An leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Hoi An 57, Luxor 25: Hoi An leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Hoi An 88, Luxor 90: Luxor leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hoi An 24, Luxor 10: Hoi An leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hoi An 65, Luxor 28: Hoi An leads by 37 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hoi An and Luxor.

Your match

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

Hoi An
Best match
57match

Wins on beaches and food and drink with your weighting.

Luxor
38match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Hoi An in July

35 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 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. Hoi An: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (23.5 km from centre). Luxor: 1998-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Luxor (6.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHoi AnLuxor
Official languageVietnameseArabic
CurrencyDong (VND)Egyptian Pound (EGP)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114Police 122, ambulance 123, fire 180
Elevation13 m89 m
Main airportDa Nang International Airport (DAD)23 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-15 days

By the numbers

MeasureHoi AnLuxor
City population121,716202,232
People per km²-486
Museums within 10 km54
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.