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The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple
Rabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira, Porto
PortoRabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira

Photos: Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Porto by Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Luxor or Porto?

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

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

Choose Porto for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Porto’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, Porto 40: Porto leads by 34 points.
Food & drink. Luxor 30, Porto 70: Porto leads by 40 points.
Culture & sights. Luxor 95, Porto 68: Luxor leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. Luxor 10, Porto 65: Porto leads by 55 points.
Nature & outdoors. Luxor 32, Porto 64: Porto leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Luxor 62, Porto 79: Porto leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Luxor 30, Porto 52: Porto leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Luxor 35, Porto 66: Porto leads by 31 points.
Shopping & style. Luxor 25, Porto 52: Porto leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Luxor 90, Porto 62: Luxor leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Luxor 10, Porto 52: Porto leads by 42 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Luxor 28, Porto 34: Porto leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Luxor and Porto.

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.

Porto
Best match
59match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts 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

Porto in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
22 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
15 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). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLuxorPorto
Official languageArabicPortuguese
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180112
Elevation89 m104 m
Main airportLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre134 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLuxorPorto
City population202,232273,476
People per km²4866,606
Museums within 10 km442
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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. 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.