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The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple
The railway viaduct over the canal, Castlefield, Manchester
ManchesterThe railway viaduct over the canal, Castlefield

Photos: Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Manchester by IIya Kuzhekin, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Luxor or Manchester?

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
  • wellness

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

Choose Manchester for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Manchester’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, Manchester 9: Manchester leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. Luxor 30, Manchester 51: Manchester leads by 21 points.
Culture & sights. Luxor 95, Manchester 50: Luxor leads by 45 points.
Nightlife. Luxor 10, Manchester 72: Manchester leads by 62 points.
Nature & outdoors. Luxor 32, Manchester 64: Manchester leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Luxor 62, Manchester 77: Manchester leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Luxor 30, Manchester 58: Manchester leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Luxor 35, Manchester 68: Manchester leads by 33 points.
Shopping & style. Luxor 25, Manchester 62: Manchester leads by 37 points.
Affordability. Luxor 90, Manchester 42: Luxor leads by 48 points.
Live music & performing arts. Luxor 10, Manchester 74: Manchester leads by 64 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Luxor 28, Manchester 15: Luxor leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Luxor and Manchester.

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.

Manchester
Best match
54match

Wins on live music and the arts 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

Manchester in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
60 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
17 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). Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLuxorManchester
Official languageArabicEnglish
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180112 or 999
Elevation89 m38 m
Main airportLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre211 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureLuxorManchester
City population202,232547,627
People per km²4864,737
Museums within 10 km428
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.