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The junk Duk Ling in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong
Hong KongThe junk Duk Ling in Victoria Harbour
The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple

Photos: Hong Kong by LN9267, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Hong Kong 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 Hong Kong for

  • shopping
  • getting around
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Hong Kong’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. Hong Kong 50, Luxor 6: Hong Kong leads by 44 points.
Food & drink. Hong Kong 90, Luxor 30: Hong Kong leads by 60 points.
Culture & sights. Hong Kong 60, Luxor 95: Luxor leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Hong Kong 68, Luxor 10: Hong Kong leads by 58 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hong Kong 80, Luxor 32: Hong Kong leads by 48 points.
Day trips. Hong Kong 68, Luxor 62: Hong Kong leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Hong Kong 75, Luxor 30: Hong Kong leads by 45 points.
Getting around. Hong Kong 97, Luxor 35: Hong Kong leads by 62 points.
Shopping & style. Hong Kong 88, Luxor 25: Hong Kong leads by 63 points.
Affordability. Hong Kong 27, Luxor 90: Luxor leads by 63 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hong Kong 55, Luxor 10: Hong Kong leads by 45 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hong Kong 42, Luxor 28: Hong Kong leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hong Kong and Luxor.

Your match

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

Hong Kong
Best match
67match

Wins on shopping and getting around 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.

Hong Kong in July

31 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
381 mmrain in the month
7 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. Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre). Luxor: 1998-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Luxor (6.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHong KongLuxor
Official languageStandard ChineseArabic
CurrencyHong Kong Dollar (HKD)Egyptian Pound (EGP)
SocketsG220 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number999Police 122, ambulance 123, fire 180
Elevation7 m89 m
Main airportHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre148 non-stop destinationsLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureHong KongLuxor
City population7,413,070202,232
People per km²-486
Museums within 10 km394
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.