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The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple
The old town below the fortress, Salzburg
SalzburgThe old town below the fortress

Photos: Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Salzburg by Leonhard Niederwimmer, Pexels License.

Luxor or Salzburg?

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 Salzburg for

  • live music and the arts
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Salzburg’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, Salzburg 35: Salzburg leads by 29 points.
Food & drink. Luxor 30, Salzburg 45: Salzburg leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Luxor 95, Salzburg 72: Luxor leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Luxor 10, Salzburg 25: Salzburg leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Luxor 32, Salzburg 86: Salzburg leads by 54 points.
Day trips. Luxor 62, Salzburg 80: Salzburg leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Luxor 30, Salzburg 65: Salzburg leads by 35 points.
Getting around. Luxor 35, Salzburg 72: Salzburg leads by 37 points.
Shopping & style. Luxor 25, Salzburg 48: Salzburg leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Luxor 90, Salzburg 32: Luxor leads by 58 points.
Live music & performing arts. Luxor 10, Salzburg 80: Salzburg leads by 70 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Luxor 28, Salzburg 55: Salzburg leads by 27 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Luxor and Salzburg.

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.

Salzburg
Best match
58match

Wins on live music and the arts 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 recordsunshine a day
14 hdaylight a day

Salzburg in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
159 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
16 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). Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLuxorSalzburg
Official languageArabicGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180112
Elevation89 m424 m
Main airportLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLuxorSalzburg
City population202,232155,021
People per km²4862,360
Museums within 10 km438
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13

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. 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.