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The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple
The Assembly Hall on Temple Square, Salt Lake City
Salt Lake CityThe Assembly Hall on Temple Square

Photos: Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Salt Lake City by hakkun, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Luxor or Salt Lake City?

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 Salt Lake City for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Salt Lake City’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, Salt Lake City 12: Salt Lake City leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Luxor 30, Salt Lake City 40: Salt Lake City leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Luxor 95, Salt Lake City 42: Luxor leads by 53 points.
Nightlife. Luxor 10, Salt Lake City 30: Salt Lake City leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Luxor 32, Salt Lake City 90: Salt Lake City leads by 58 points.
Day trips. Luxor 62, Salt Lake City 34: Luxor leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Luxor 30, Salt Lake City 72: Salt Lake City leads by 42 points.
Getting around. Luxor 35, Salt Lake City 42: Salt Lake City leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Luxor 25, Salt Lake City 36: Salt Lake City leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Luxor 90, Salt Lake City 40: Luxor leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Luxor 10, Salt Lake City 55: Salt Lake City leads by 45 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Luxor 28, Salt Lake City 38: Salt Lake City leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Luxor and Salt Lake City.

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.

Salt Lake City
Best match
44match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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
14 hdaylight a day

Salt Lake City in July

34 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
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). Salt Lake City: 1991-2020 normals, Salt Lake City International Airport (7.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLuxorSalt Lake City
Official languageArabic-
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180911
Elevation89 m1,288 m
Main airportLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)9 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLuxorSalt Lake City
City population202,232199,723
People per km²486690
Museums within 10 km412
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10

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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.