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Wat Xieng Thong temple, Luang Prabang
Luang PrabangWat Xieng Thong temple
The Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal, Venice
VeniceThe Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal

Photos: Luang Prabang by Basile Morin, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Venice by David Vives, Pexels License.

Luang Prabang or Venice?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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

Choose Venice for

  • day trips
  • live music and the arts
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Venice’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, Venice 56: Venice leads by 42 points.
Food & drink. Luang Prabang 42, Venice 60: Venice leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Luang Prabang 65, Venice 94: Venice leads by 29 points.
Nightlife. Luang Prabang 8, Venice 27: Venice leads by 19 points.
Nature & outdoors. Luang Prabang 68, Venice 45: Luang Prabang leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Luang Prabang 35, Venice 86: Venice leads by 51 points.
Good for families. Luang Prabang 38, Venice 45: Venice leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Luang Prabang 50, Venice 68: Venice leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Luang Prabang 38, Venice 57: Venice leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Luang Prabang 80, Venice 20: Luang Prabang leads by 60 points.
Live music & performing arts. Luang Prabang 18, Venice 62: Venice leads by 44 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Luang Prabang 60, Venice 40: Luang Prabang leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Luang Prabang and Venice.

Your match

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

Luang Prabang
43match

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

Venice
Best match
55match

Wins on day trips and live music and the arts 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
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Venice in July

29 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
61 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Venice 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.

Venice's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Treviso / S. Angelo.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Luang Prabang: 1991-2020 normals, Luang-Prabang (0.8 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Venezia / Tessera (6.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLuang PrabangVenice
Official languageLaoItalian
CurrencyLao Kip (LAK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABCEF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 195, fire 190112
Elevation305 m2 m
Main airportLuang Phabang International Airport (LPQ)4 km from centre7 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLuang PrabangVenice
City population53,792250,369
People per km²-602
Museums within 10 km052
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.