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The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple
Whitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum, Palm Beach
Palm BeachWhitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum

Photos: Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Palm Beach by Khowald, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Luxor or Palm Beach?

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 Palm Beach for

  • beaches
  • shopping
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Palm Beach’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, Palm Beach 82: Palm Beach leads by 76 points.
Food & drink. Luxor 30, Palm Beach 47: Palm Beach leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Luxor 95, Palm Beach 45: Luxor leads by 50 points.
Nightlife. Luxor 10, Palm Beach 32: Palm Beach leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Luxor 32, Palm Beach 58: Palm Beach leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Luxor 62, Palm Beach 55: Luxor leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Luxor 30, Palm Beach 62: Palm Beach leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Luxor 35, Palm Beach 32: Luxor leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Luxor 25, Palm Beach 66: Palm Beach leads by 41 points.
Affordability. Luxor 90, Palm Beach 12: Luxor leads by 78 points.
Live music & performing arts. Luxor 10, Palm Beach 45: Palm Beach leads by 35 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Luxor 28, Palm Beach 55: Palm Beach leads by 27 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Luxor and Palm Beach.

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.

Palm Beach
Best match
49match

Wins on beaches 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 seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
29 °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). Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (6.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLuxorPalm Beach
Official languageArabic-
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)US Dollar (USD)
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 m2 m
Main airportLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLuxorPalm Beach
City population202,2329,245
People per km²486322
Museums within 10 km44
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.