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The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple
The Royal Palace, Madrid
MadridThe Royal Palace

Photos: Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Madrid by Mert Ocak, Pexels License.

Luxor or Madrid?

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 Luxor for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • beaches

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

Choose Madrid for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Madrid’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. Luxor 6, Madrid 5: Luxor leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Luxor 30, Madrid 80: Madrid leads by 50 points.
Culture & sights. Luxor 95, Madrid 86: Luxor leads by 9 points.
Nightlife. Luxor 10, Madrid 85: Madrid leads by 75 points.
Nature & outdoors. Luxor 32, Madrid 60: Madrid leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Luxor 62, Madrid 89: Madrid leads by 27 points.
Good for families. Luxor 30, Madrid 68: Madrid leads by 38 points.
Getting around. Luxor 35, Madrid 84: Madrid leads by 49 points.
Shopping & style. Luxor 25, Madrid 75: Madrid leads by 50 points.
Affordability. Luxor 90, Madrid 50: Luxor leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Luxor 10, Madrid 77: Madrid leads by 67 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Luxor 28, Madrid 36: Madrid leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Luxor and Madrid.

Your match

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

Luxor
38match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Madrid
Best match
66match

Wins on nightlife 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.

Luxor in July

41 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
14 hdaylight a day

Madrid in July

33 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
9 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
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

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. Luxor: 1998-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Luxor (6.5 km from centre). Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLuxorMadrid
Official languageArabicSpanish
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180112
Elevation89 m663 m
Main airportLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre239 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLuxorMadrid
City population202,2323,506,730
People per km²4865,801
Museums within 10 km488
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14

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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.