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Ferries off the Kordon promenade, Izmir
IzmirFerries off the Kordon promenade
The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple

Photos: Izmir by Toygar Par, Pexels License; Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Izmir 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 Izmir for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

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

Choose Luxor for

  • culture and sights
  • 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. Izmir 62, Luxor 6: Izmir leads by 56 points.
Food & drink. Izmir 72, Luxor 30: Izmir leads by 42 points.
Culture & sights. Izmir 55, Luxor 95: Luxor leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Izmir 60, Luxor 10: Izmir leads by 50 points.
Nature & outdoors. Izmir 66, Luxor 32: Izmir leads by 34 points.
Day trips. Izmir 86, Luxor 62: Izmir leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Izmir 55, Luxor 30: Izmir leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Izmir 63, Luxor 35: Izmir leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Izmir 55, Luxor 25: Izmir leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Izmir 66, Luxor 90: Luxor leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Izmir 48, Luxor 10: Izmir leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Izmir 57, Luxor 28: Izmir leads by 29 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Izmir and Luxor.

Your match

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

Izmir
Best match
62match

Wins on beaches and nightlife 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.

Izmir in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
23 °Csea
15 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. Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre). Luxor: 1998-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Luxor (6.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureIzmirLuxor
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
Elevation2 m89 m
Main airportAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureIzmirLuxor
City population4,493,242202,232
People per km²4,760486
Museums within 10 km294
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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). 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.