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A yellow tram in a narrow street, Lisbon
LisbonA yellow tram in a narrow street
The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple

Photos: Lisbon by Riccardo Toso, Pexels License; Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Lisbon 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 Lisbon for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Lisbon’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. Lisbon 50, Luxor 6: Lisbon leads by 44 points.
Food & drink. Lisbon 75, Luxor 30: Lisbon leads by 45 points.
Culture & sights. Lisbon 78, Luxor 95: Luxor leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Lisbon 75, Luxor 10: Lisbon leads by 65 points.
Nature & outdoors. Lisbon 75, Luxor 32: Lisbon leads by 43 points.
Day trips. Lisbon 82, Luxor 62: Lisbon leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Lisbon 62, Luxor 30: Lisbon leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Lisbon 66, Luxor 35: Lisbon leads by 31 points.
Shopping & style. Lisbon 60, Luxor 25: Lisbon leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Lisbon 55, Luxor 90: Luxor leads by 35 points.
Live music & performing arts. Lisbon 60, Luxor 10: Lisbon leads by 50 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Lisbon 36, Luxor 28: Lisbon leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Lisbon and Luxor.

Your match

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

Lisbon
Best match
65match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts 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.

Lisbon in July

28 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
18 °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. Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre). Luxor: 1998-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Luxor (6.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLisbonLuxor
Official languagePortugueseArabic
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Egyptian Pound (EGP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112Police 122, ambulance 123, fire 180
Elevation100 m89 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre156 non-stop destinationsLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonLuxor
City population545,796202,232
People per km²5,453486
Museums within 10 km804
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

Where else could you go?

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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). 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.