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The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple
Colourful houses in the old town, Mazatlan
MazatlanColourful houses in the old town

Photos: Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Mazatlan by Gzzz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Luxor or Mazatlan?

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

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • day trips

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

Choose Mazatlan for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Mazatlan’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, Mazatlan 80: Mazatlan leads by 74 points.
Food & drink. Luxor 30, Mazatlan 62: Mazatlan leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Luxor 95, Mazatlan 42: Luxor leads by 53 points.
Nightlife. Luxor 10, Mazatlan 55: Mazatlan leads by 45 points.
Nature & outdoors. Luxor 32, Mazatlan 66: Mazatlan leads by 34 points.
Day trips. Luxor 62, Mazatlan 45: Luxor leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Luxor 30, Mazatlan 60: Mazatlan leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Luxor 35, Mazatlan 42: Mazatlan leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Luxor 25, Mazatlan 30: Mazatlan leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Luxor 90, Mazatlan 70: Luxor leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Luxor 10, Mazatlan 40: Mazatlan leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Luxor 28, Mazatlan 35: Mazatlan leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Luxor and Mazatlan.

Your match

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

Luxor
38match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

Mazatlan
Best match
52match

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

Mazatlan in July

34 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
153 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 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). Mazatlan: 1991-2020 normals, Colonia Juan Carras-Co Mazatlan, Sin. (2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLuxorMazatlan
Official languageArabicSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-7
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180911
Elevation89 m139 m
Main airportLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsGeneral Rafael Buelna International Airport (MZT)16 km from centre23 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureLuxorMazatlan
City population202,232441,975
People per km²486-
Museums within 10 km43
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.