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The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple
Barlas Island in Honda Bay, Puerto Princesa
Puerto PrincesaBarlas Island in Honda Bay

Photos: Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Puerto Princesa by Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Luxor or Puerto Princesa?

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
  • day trips
  • prices

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

Choose Puerto Princesa for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Princesa’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, Puerto Princesa 58: Puerto Princesa leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Luxor 30, Puerto Princesa 38: Puerto Princesa leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Luxor 95, Puerto Princesa 22: Luxor leads by 73 points.
Nightlife. Luxor 10, Puerto Princesa 26: Puerto Princesa leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Luxor 32, Puerto Princesa 80: Puerto Princesa leads by 48 points.
Day trips. Luxor 62, Puerto Princesa 12: Luxor leads by 50 points.
Good for families. Luxor 30, Puerto Princesa 45: Puerto Princesa leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Luxor 35, Puerto Princesa 30: Luxor leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Luxor 25, Puerto Princesa 20: Luxor leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Luxor 90, Puerto Princesa 78: Luxor leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Luxor and Puerto Princesa are level on 10.
Wellness & relaxation. Luxor 28, Puerto Princesa 40: Puerto Princesa leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Luxor and Puerto Princesa.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Luxor
38match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

Puerto Princesa
38match

Wins on beaches 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
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Puerto Princesa in July

29 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
216 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
13 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.

Puerto Princesa has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Luxor: 1998-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Luxor (6.5 km from centre). Puerto Princesa: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureLuxorPuerto Princesa
Official languageArabicEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+8
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180911
Elevation89 m98 m
Main airportLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsPuerto Princesa International Airport / PAF Antonio Bautista Air Base (PPS)2 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureLuxorPuerto Princesa
City population202,232316,384
People per km²486133
Museums within 10 km41
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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.