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The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple
Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky

Photos: Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Luxor or Montevideo?

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
  • day trips

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

Choose Montevideo for

  • beaches
  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Montevideo’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, Montevideo 55: Montevideo leads by 49 points.
Food & drink. Luxor 30, Montevideo 57: Montevideo leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Luxor 95, Montevideo 54: Luxor leads by 41 points.
Nightlife. Luxor 10, Montevideo 50: Montevideo leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. Luxor 32, Montevideo 34: Montevideo leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Luxor 62, Montevideo 55: Luxor leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Luxor 30, Montevideo 55: Montevideo leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Luxor 35, Montevideo 54: Montevideo leads by 19 points.
Shopping & style. Luxor 25, Montevideo 36: Montevideo leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Luxor 90, Montevideo 42: Luxor leads by 48 points.
Live music & performing arts. Luxor 10, Montevideo 57: Montevideo leads by 47 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Luxor 28, Montevideo 38: Montevideo leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Luxor and Montevideo.

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.

Montevideo
Best match
49match

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

Montevideo in July

15 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
99 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
11 °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). Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLuxorMontevideo
Official languageArabic-
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Peso Uruguayo (UYU)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCFIL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-3
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180911
Elevation89 m41 m
Main airportLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureLuxorMontevideo
City population202,2321,302,954
People per km²4861,785
Museums within 10 km436
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
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. 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.