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The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple
Shitennō-ji temple, Osaka
OsakaShitennō-ji temple

Photos: Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Osaka by Sarmat Batagov, Pexels License.

Luxor or Osaka?

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

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

Choose Osaka for

  • nightlife
  • food and drink
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Osaka’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, Osaka 34: Osaka leads by 28 points.
Food & drink. Luxor 30, Osaka 91: Osaka leads by 61 points.
Culture & sights. Luxor 95, Osaka 63: Luxor leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Luxor 10, Osaka 80: Osaka leads by 70 points.
Nature & outdoors. Luxor 32, Osaka 58: Osaka leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Luxor 62, Osaka 97: Osaka leads by 35 points.
Good for families. Luxor 30, Osaka 88: Osaka leads by 58 points.
Getting around. Luxor 35, Osaka 90: Osaka leads by 55 points.
Shopping & style. Luxor 25, Osaka 80: Osaka leads by 55 points.
Affordability. Luxor 90, Osaka 60: Luxor leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Luxor 10, Osaka 66: Osaka leads by 56 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Luxor 28, Osaka 66: Osaka leads by 38 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Luxor and Osaka.

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.

Osaka
Best match
73match

Wins on nightlife and food and drink 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

Osaka in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
175 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 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). Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLuxorOsaka
Official languageArabicJapanese
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+9
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180Police 110, fire 119
Elevation89 m20 m
Main airportLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLuxorOsaka
City population202,2322,751,862
People per km²48612,340
Museums within 10 km444
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km16
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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.