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The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple
The Casino de Monte-Carlo, Monaco
MonacoThe Casino de Monte-Carlo

Photos: Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Monaco by otterboris, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Luxor or Monaco?

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 Monaco for

  • beaches
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Monaco’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, Monaco 68: Monaco leads by 62 points.
Food & drink. Luxor 30, Monaco 57: Monaco leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Luxor 95, Monaco 55: Luxor leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Luxor 10, Monaco 48: Monaco leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Luxor 32, Monaco 70: Monaco leads by 38 points.
Day trips. Luxor 62, Monaco 84: Monaco leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Luxor 30, Monaco 60: Monaco leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Luxor 35, Monaco 78: Monaco leads by 43 points.
Shopping & style. Luxor 25, Monaco 52: Monaco leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Luxor 90, Monaco 3: Luxor leads by 87 points.
Live music & performing arts. Luxor 10, Monaco 63: Monaco leads by 53 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Luxor 28, Monaco 55: Monaco leads by 27 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Luxor and Monaco.

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.

Monaco
Best match
58match

Wins on beaches 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

Monaco in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °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). Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLuxorMonaco
Official languageArabicFrench
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCEF230 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 m68 m
Main airportLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLuxorMonaco
City population202,23238,857
People per km²48618,503
Museums within 10 km414
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.