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The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple
The church of San Francisco under a blue sky, Quito
QuitoThe church of San Francisco under a blue sky

Photos: Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Quito by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Luxor or Quito?

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
  • prices
  • day trips

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

Choose Quito for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Quito’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, Quito 5: Luxor leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Luxor 30, Quito 54: Quito leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Luxor 95, Quito 77: Luxor leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Luxor 10, Quito 40: Quito leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Luxor 32, Quito 86: Quito leads by 54 points.
Day trips. Luxor 62, Quito 55: Luxor leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Luxor 30, Quito 32: Quito leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Luxor 35, Quito 45: Quito leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Luxor 25, Quito 40: Quito leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Luxor 90, Quito 78: Luxor leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Luxor 10, Quito 38: Quito leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Luxor 28, Quito 44: Quito leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Luxor and Quito.

Your match

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

Luxor
38match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

Quito
Best match
50match

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

Quito in July

18 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
32 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
12 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.

Quito's station stands 208 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Luxor: 1998-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Luxor (6.5 km from centre). Quito: 1961-1990 normals, Izobamba-Santa Catalina (16.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLuxorQuito
Official languageArabicSpanish, Shuar, Northern Quichua
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-5
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180911
Elevation89 m2,850 m
Main airportLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsMariscal Sucre International Airport (UIO)20 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLuxorQuito
City population202,2321,763,275
People per km²4864,735
Museums within 10 km416
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12

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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.