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Turquoise water off Giftun Island, Hurghada
HurghadaTurquoise water off Giftun Island
The Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal, Venice
VeniceThe Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal

Photos: Hurghada by Andrey Korchagin, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Venice by David Vives, Pexels License.

Hurghada or Venice?

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 Hurghada for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Venice for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Venice’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. Hurghada 84, Venice 56: Hurghada leads by 28 points.
Food & drink. Hurghada 34, Venice 60: Venice leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Hurghada 14, Venice 94: Venice leads by 80 points.
Nightlife. Hurghada 40, Venice 27: Hurghada leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hurghada 72, Venice 45: Hurghada leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Hurghada 30, Venice 86: Venice leads by 56 points.
Good for families. Hurghada 62, Venice 45: Hurghada leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Hurghada 22, Venice 68: Venice leads by 46 points.
Shopping & style. Hurghada 24, Venice 57: Venice leads by 33 points.
Affordability. Hurghada 80, Venice 20: Hurghada leads by 60 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hurghada 10, Venice 62: Venice leads by 52 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hurghada 44, Venice 40: Hurghada leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hurghada and Venice.

Your match

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

Hurghada
43match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

Venice
Best match
55match

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.

Hurghada in July

37 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Venice in July

29 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
61 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Venice 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.

Venice's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Treviso / S. Angelo.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Hurghada: 1991-2020 normals, Hurguada (15.2 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Venezia / Tessera (6.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHurghadaVenice
Official languageArabicItalian
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180112
Elevation11 m2 m
Main airportHurghada International Airport (HRG)9 km from centre111 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHurghadaVenice
City population214,247250,369
People per km²-602
Museums within 10 km152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.