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The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple
Palm Springs

Photos: Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Luxor or Palm Springs?

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 Springs for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Palm Springs’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 Springs 7: Palm Springs leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Luxor 30, Palm Springs 40: Palm Springs leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Luxor 95, Palm Springs 42: Luxor leads by 53 points.
Nightlife. Luxor 10, Palm Springs 36: Palm Springs leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Luxor 32, Palm Springs 78: Palm Springs leads by 46 points.
Day trips. Luxor 62, Palm Springs 38: Luxor leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Luxor 30, Palm Springs 40: Palm Springs leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Luxor 35, Palm Springs 22: Luxor leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Luxor 25, Palm Springs 44: Palm Springs leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Luxor 90, Palm Springs 32: Luxor leads by 58 points.
Live music & performing arts. Luxor 10, Palm Springs 40: Palm Springs leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Luxor 28, Palm Springs 80: Palm Springs leads by 52 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Luxor and Palm Springs.

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 Springs
Best match
42match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors 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
14 hdaylight a day

Palm Springs in July

42 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
5 mmrain in the month
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.

Palm Springs 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 Springs: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Palm Springs (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLuxorPalm Springs
Official languageArabic-
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180911
Elevation89 m146 m
Main airportLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsPalm Springs International Airport (PSP)2 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLuxorPalm Springs
City population202,23244,575
People per km²486181
Museums within 10 km43
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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.