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The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple
La Major cathedral from the harbour, Marseille
MarseilleLa Major cathedral from the harbour

Photos: Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Marseille by Charlotte Noblet, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Luxor or Marseille?

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 Marseille for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Marseille’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, Marseille 72: Marseille leads by 66 points.
Food & drink. Luxor 30, Marseille 67: Marseille leads by 37 points.
Culture & sights. Luxor 95, Marseille 63: Luxor leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Luxor 10, Marseille 57: Marseille leads by 47 points.
Nature & outdoors. Luxor 32, Marseille 83: Marseille leads by 51 points.
Day trips. Luxor 62, Marseille 86: Marseille leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Luxor 30, Marseille 50: Marseille leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Luxor 35, Marseille 57: Marseille leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Luxor 25, Marseille 47: Marseille leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Luxor 90, Marseille 45: Luxor leads by 45 points.
Live music & performing arts. Luxor 10, Marseille 56: Marseille leads by 46 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Luxor 28, Marseille 37: Marseille leads by 9 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Luxor and Marseille.

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.

Marseille
Best match
60match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors 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

Marseille in July

31 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
11 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
21 °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

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). Marseille: 1991-2020 normals, Marseille / Marignane (20.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLuxorMarseille
Official languageArabicFrench
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCE230 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 m0 m
Main airportLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre126 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLuxorMarseille
City population202,232886,040
People per km²4863,683
Museums within 10 km427
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C-2 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). 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.