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The Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles
Los AngelesThe Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier
The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple

Photos: Los Angeles by Domenico Convertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • shopping

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

Choose Luxor for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

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. Los Angeles 60, Luxor 6: Los Angeles leads by 54 points.
Food & drink. Los Angeles 84, Luxor 30: Los Angeles leads by 54 points.
Culture & sights. Los Angeles 66, Luxor 95: Luxor leads by 29 points.
Nightlife. Los Angeles 67, Luxor 10: Los Angeles leads by 57 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Angeles 80, Luxor 32: Los Angeles leads by 48 points.
Day trips. Los Angeles 60, Luxor 62: Luxor leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Los Angeles 84, Luxor 30: Los Angeles leads by 54 points.
Getting around. Los Angeles 25, Luxor 35: Luxor leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Los Angeles 80, Luxor 25: Los Angeles leads by 55 points.
Affordability. Los Angeles 24, Luxor 90: Luxor leads by 66 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Angeles 83, Luxor 10: Los Angeles leads by 73 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Angeles 60, Luxor 28: Los Angeles leads by 32 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Angeles and Luxor.

Your match

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

Los Angeles
Best match
64match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife 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.

Los Angeles in July

24 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Luxor in July

41 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
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. Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre). Luxor: 1998-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Luxor (6.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLos AngelesLuxor
Official language-Arabic
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Egyptian Pound (EGP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911Police 122, ambulance 123, fire 180
Elevation106 m89 m
Main airportLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre177 non-stop destinationsLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos AngelesLuxor
City population3,898,747202,232
People per km²2,994486
Museums within 10 km394
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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.