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The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple
Santo Domingo church behind agaves, Oaxaca
OaxacaSanto Domingo church behind agaves

Photos: Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Oaxaca by Öskr Rck, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Luxor or Oaxaca?

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

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • beaches

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

Choose Oaxaca for

  • food and drink
  • shopping
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Oaxaca’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, Oaxaca 5: Luxor leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Luxor 30, Oaxaca 84: Oaxaca leads by 54 points.
Culture & sights. Luxor 95, Oaxaca 74: Luxor leads by 21 points.
Nightlife. Luxor 10, Oaxaca 40: Oaxaca leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Luxor 32, Oaxaca 62: Oaxaca leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Luxor 62, Oaxaca 65: Oaxaca leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Luxor 30, Oaxaca 40: Oaxaca leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Luxor 35, Oaxaca 55: Oaxaca leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Luxor 25, Oaxaca 62: Oaxaca leads by 37 points.
Affordability. Luxor 90, Oaxaca 77: Luxor leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Luxor 10, Oaxaca 38: Oaxaca leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Luxor 28, Oaxaca 50: Oaxaca leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Luxor and Oaxaca.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Luxor
38match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

Oaxaca
Best match
54match

Wins on food and drink and shopping 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

Oaxaca in July

28 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
80 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
13 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). Oaxaca: 1961-1990 normals, Oaxaca, Oax. (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLuxorOaxaca
Official languageArabicSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-6
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180911
Elevation89 m1,555 m
Main airportLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsXoxocotlán International Airport (OAX)7 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureLuxorOaxaca
City population202,232258,913
People per km²4863,028
Museums within 10 km410
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12

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. 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.