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The fountain on Plaza Mayor, Lima
LimaThe fountain on Plaza Mayor
The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple

Photos: Lima by James C., CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Lima 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 Lima for

  • food and drink
  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Lima’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. Lima 42, Luxor 6: Lima leads by 36 points.
Food & drink. Lima 88, Luxor 30: Lima leads by 58 points.
Culture & sights. Lima 66, Luxor 95: Luxor leads by 29 points.
Nightlife. Lima 62, Luxor 10: Lima leads by 52 points.
Nature & outdoors. Lima 45, Luxor 32: Lima leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Lima 34, Luxor 62: Luxor leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Lima 42, Luxor 30: Lima leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Lima and Luxor are level on 35.
Shopping & style. Lima 52, Luxor 25: Lima leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Lima 70, Luxor 90: Luxor leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Lima 53, Luxor 10: Lima leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Lima 25, Luxor 28: Luxor leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Lima and Luxor.

Your match

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

Lima
Best match
51match

Wins on food and drink and nightlife 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.

Lima in July

19 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
1 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
12 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. Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre). Luxor: 1998-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Luxor (6.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLimaLuxor
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaArabic
CurrencySol (PEN)Egyptian Pound (EGP)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911Police 122, ambulance 123, fire 180
Elevation154 m89 m
Main airportJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre61 non-stop destinationsLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimaLuxor
City population9,943,800202,232
People per km²3,721486
Museums within 10 km474
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 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. 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.