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The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple
The steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi, New Orleans
New OrleansThe steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi

Photos: Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; New Orleans by Bernard Spragg, CC0.

Luxor or New Orleans?

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 New Orleans for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on New Orleans’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, New Orleans 14: New Orleans leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Luxor 30, New Orleans 84: New Orleans leads by 54 points.
Culture & sights. Luxor 95, New Orleans 67: Luxor leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Luxor 10, New Orleans 85: New Orleans leads by 75 points.
Nature & outdoors. Luxor 32, New Orleans 42: New Orleans leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Luxor 62, New Orleans 52: Luxor leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Luxor 30, New Orleans 55: New Orleans leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Luxor 35, New Orleans 55: New Orleans leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Luxor 25, New Orleans 54: New Orleans leads by 29 points.
Affordability. Luxor 90, New Orleans 40: Luxor leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Luxor 10, New Orleans 80: New Orleans leads by 70 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Luxor 28, New Orleans 25: Luxor leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Luxor and New Orleans.

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.

New Orleans
Best match
54match

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 seasea
14 hdaylight a day

New Orleans in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
169 mmrain in the month
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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LuxorNew Orleans

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). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLuxorNew Orleans
Official languageArabic-
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180911
Elevation89 m-2 m
Main airportLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLuxorNew Orleans
City population202,232383,997
People per km²486423
Museums within 10 km416
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-7 months

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.