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The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple
Place d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal
MontrealPlace d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica

Photos: Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Montreal by Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Luxor or Montreal?

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 Montreal for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Montreal’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, Montreal 25: Montreal leads by 19 points.
Food & drink. Luxor 30, Montreal 78: Montreal leads by 48 points.
Culture & sights. Luxor 95, Montreal 60: Luxor leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Luxor 10, Montreal 75: Montreal leads by 65 points.
Nature & outdoors. Luxor 32, Montreal 66: Montreal leads by 34 points.
Day trips. Luxor 62, Montreal 55: Luxor leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Luxor 30, Montreal 68: Montreal leads by 38 points.
Getting around. Luxor 35, Montreal 72: Montreal leads by 37 points.
Shopping & style. Luxor 25, Montreal 60: Montreal leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Luxor 90, Montreal 45: Luxor leads by 45 points.
Live music & performing arts. Luxor 10, Montreal 76: Montreal leads by 66 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Luxor 28, Montreal 57: Montreal leads by 29 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Luxor and Montreal.

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.

Montreal
Best match
61match

Wins on live music and the arts 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
14 hdaylight a day

Montreal in July

27 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
98 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
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). Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLuxorMontreal
Official languageArabicFrench, English
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180911
Elevation89 m31 m
Main airportLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre166 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureLuxorMontreal
City population202,2321,895,211
People per km²4863,806
Museums within 10 km437
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10

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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. 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.