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The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple
The Eiffel Tower from the Trocadéro, Paris
ParisThe Eiffel Tower from the Trocadéro

Photos: Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Paris by Efrem Efre, Pexels License.

Luxor or Paris?

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

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

Choose Paris for

  • live music and the arts
  • shopping
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Paris’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, Paris 9: Paris leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. Luxor 30, Paris 96: Paris leads by 66 points.
Culture & sights. Luxor 95, Paris 97: Paris leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Luxor 10, Paris 80: Paris leads by 70 points.
Nature & outdoors. Luxor 32, Paris 52: Paris leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Luxor 62, Paris 92: Paris leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Luxor 30, Paris 79: Paris leads by 49 points.
Getting around. Luxor 35, Paris 88: Paris leads by 53 points.
Shopping & style. Luxor 25, Paris 98: Paris leads by 73 points.
Affordability. Luxor 90, Paris 25: Luxor leads by 65 points.
Live music & performing arts. Luxor 10, Paris 88: Paris leads by 78 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Luxor 28, Paris 40: Paris leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Luxor and Paris.

Your match

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

Luxor
38match

Wins on prices with your weighting.

Paris
Best match
70match

Wins on live music and the arts 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
14 hdaylight a day

Paris in July

26 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
58 mmrain in the month
16 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). Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLuxorParis
Official languageArabicFrench
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180112
Elevation89 m27 m
Main airportLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLuxorParis
City population202,2322,103,778
People per km²48619,960
Museums within 10 km4251
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14

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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.