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The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple
The opera house on Place de la Comédie, Montpellier
MontpellierThe opera house on Place de la Comédie

Photos: Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Montpellier by Peter, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Luxor or Montpellier?

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 Montpellier for

  • beaches
  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Montpellier’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, Montpellier 64: Montpellier leads by 58 points.
Food & drink. Luxor 30, Montpellier 64: Montpellier leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. Luxor 95, Montpellier 60: Luxor leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Luxor 10, Montpellier 56: Montpellier leads by 46 points.
Nature & outdoors. Luxor 32, Montpellier 72: Montpellier leads by 40 points.
Day trips. Luxor 62, Montpellier 85: Montpellier leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Luxor 30, Montpellier 62: Montpellier leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Luxor 35, Montpellier 74: Montpellier leads by 39 points.
Shopping & style. Luxor 25, Montpellier 47: Montpellier leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Luxor 90, Montpellier 50: Luxor leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Luxor 10, Montpellier 63: Montpellier leads by 53 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Luxor 28, Montpellier 42: Montpellier leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Luxor and Montpellier.

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.

Montpellier
Best match
62match

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

Montpellier in July

30 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
17 mmrain in the month
11 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). Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLuxorMontpellier
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 m7 m
Main airportLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLuxorMontpellier
City population202,232310,240
People per km²4865,452
Museums within 10 km414
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
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.