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The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple
The cathedral from the gardens, Malaga
MalagaThe cathedral from the gardens

Photos: Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Malaga by Holger Uwe Schmitt, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Luxor or Malaga?

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

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

Choose Malaga for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Malaga’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, Malaga 77: Malaga leads by 71 points.
Food & drink. Luxor 30, Malaga 68: Malaga leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Luxor 95, Malaga 65: Luxor leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Luxor 10, Malaga 62: Malaga leads by 52 points.
Nature & outdoors. Luxor 32, Malaga 73: Malaga leads by 41 points.
Day trips. Luxor 62, Malaga 87: Malaga leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Luxor 30, Malaga 70: Malaga leads by 40 points.
Getting around. Luxor 35, Malaga 70: Malaga leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. Luxor 25, Malaga 55: Malaga leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Luxor 90, Malaga 55: Luxor leads by 35 points.
Live music & performing arts. Luxor 10, Malaga 45: Malaga leads by 35 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Luxor 28, Malaga 42: Malaga leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Luxor and Malaga.

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.

Malaga
Best match
64match

Wins on beaches and nightlife 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
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Malaga in July

31 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
22 °Csea
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. Luxor: 1998-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Luxor (6.5 km from centre). Malaga: 1991-2020 normals, Malaga / Aeropuerto (8.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLuxorMalaga
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 m18 m
Main airportLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsMálaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP)8 km from centre166 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLuxorMalaga
City population202,232599,063
People per km²4861,517
Museums within 10 km432
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C-3 months

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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.