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The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple
The city from Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavik
ReykjavikThe city from Hallgrímskirkja

Photos: Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Reykjavik by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License.

Luxor or Reykjavik?

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 Reykjavik for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Reykjavik’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, Reykjavik 12: Reykjavik leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Luxor 30, Reykjavik 42: Reykjavik leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Luxor 95, Reykjavik 25: Luxor leads by 70 points.
Nightlife. Luxor 10, Reykjavik 45: Reykjavik leads by 35 points.
Nature & outdoors. Luxor 32, Reykjavik 92: Reykjavik leads by 60 points.
Day trips. Luxor 62, Reykjavik 35: Luxor leads by 27 points.
Good for families. Luxor 30, Reykjavik 55: Reykjavik leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Luxor 35, Reykjavik 55: Reykjavik leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Luxor and Reykjavik are level on 25.
Affordability. Luxor 90, Reykjavik 6: Luxor leads by 84 points.
Live music & performing arts. Luxor 10, Reykjavik 45: Reykjavik leads by 35 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Luxor 28, Reykjavik 88: Reykjavik leads by 60 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Luxor and Reykjavik.

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.

Reykjavik
Best match
44match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and wellness 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

Reykjavik in July

15 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
50 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
11 °Csea
20 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). Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLuxorReykjavik
Official languageArabicIcelandic
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Iceland Krona (ISK)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180112
Elevation89 m8 m
Main airportLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLuxorReykjavik
City population202,232138,772
People per km²486569
Museums within 10 km423
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.