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Wat Xieng Thong temple, Luang Prabang
Luang PrabangWat Xieng Thong temple
Bell Rock outside Sedona, Sedona
SedonaBell Rock outside Sedona

Photos: Luang Prabang by Basile Morin, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Sedona by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Luang Prabang or Sedona?

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 Luang Prabang for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

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

Choose Sedona for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Sedona’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. Luang Prabang 14, Sedona 16: Sedona leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Luang Prabang 42, Sedona 33: Luang Prabang leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Luang Prabang 65, Sedona 20: Luang Prabang leads by 45 points.
Nightlife. Luang Prabang and Sedona are level on 8.
Nature & outdoors. Luang Prabang 68, Sedona 93: Sedona leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Luang Prabang 35, Sedona 55: Sedona leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Luang Prabang 38, Sedona 42: Sedona leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Luang Prabang 50, Sedona 22: Luang Prabang leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Luang Prabang 38, Sedona 34: Luang Prabang leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Luang Prabang 80, Sedona 18: Luang Prabang leads by 62 points.
Live music & performing arts. Luang Prabang 18, Sedona 13: Luang Prabang leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Luang Prabang 60, Sedona 82: Sedona leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Luang Prabang and Sedona.

Your match

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

Luang Prabang
Best match
43match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Sedona
36match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Luang Prabang in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
250 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
13 hdaylight a day

Sedona in July

34 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
51 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Luang PrabangSedona

Where the figures come from

Sedona's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Sedona 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. Luang Prabang: 1991-2020 normals, Luang-Prabang (0.8 km from centre). Sedona: 2009-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sedona / West Sedona (1.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLuang PrabangSedona
Official languageLao-
CurrencyLao Kip (LAK)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsABCEF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-7
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 195, fire 190911
Elevation305 m1,319 m
Main airportLuang Phabang International Airport (LPQ)4 km from centre7 non-stop destinationsPhoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)160 km from centre148 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLuang PrabangSedona
City population53,7929,684
People per km²-195
Museums within 10 km00
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10

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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.