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The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple
Flinders Street Station, Melbourne
MelbourneFlinders Street Station

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

Luxor or Melbourne?

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 Melbourne for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Melbourne’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, Melbourne 50: Melbourne leads by 44 points.
Food & drink. Luxor 30, Melbourne 75: Melbourne leads by 45 points.
Culture & sights. Luxor 95, Melbourne 57: Luxor leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Luxor 10, Melbourne 75: Melbourne leads by 65 points.
Nature & outdoors. Luxor 32, Melbourne 70: Melbourne leads by 38 points.
Day trips. Luxor and Melbourne are level on 62.
Good for families. Luxor 30, Melbourne 73: Melbourne leads by 43 points.
Getting around. Luxor 35, Melbourne 76: Melbourne leads by 41 points.
Shopping & style. Luxor 25, Melbourne 70: Melbourne leads by 45 points.
Affordability. Luxor 90, Melbourne 31: Luxor leads by 59 points.
Live music & performing arts. Luxor 10, Melbourne 72: Melbourne leads by 62 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Luxor 28, Melbourne 54: Melbourne leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Luxor and Melbourne.

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.

Melbourne
Best match
64match

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
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Melbourne in July

14 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
46 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
10 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). Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLuxorMelbourne
Official languageArabicEnglish
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180000
Elevation89 m31 m
Main airportLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre69 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLuxorMelbourne
City population202,2325,350,705
People per km²486535
Museums within 10 km443
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
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.