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The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple
The Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
San FranciscoThe Golden Gate Bridge

Photos: Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; San Francisco by Elijah Cobb, Pexels License.

Luxor or San Francisco?

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 San Francisco for

  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on San Francisco’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, San Francisco 25: San Francisco leads by 19 points.
Food & drink. Luxor 30, San Francisco 82: San Francisco leads by 52 points.
Culture & sights. Luxor 95, San Francisco 68: Luxor leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. Luxor 10, San Francisco 58: San Francisco leads by 48 points.
Nature & outdoors. Luxor 32, San Francisco 80: San Francisco leads by 48 points.
Day trips. Luxor 62, San Francisco 72: San Francisco leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Luxor 30, San Francisco 66: San Francisco leads by 36 points.
Getting around. Luxor 35, San Francisco 70: San Francisco leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. Luxor 25, San Francisco 58: San Francisco leads by 33 points.
Affordability. Luxor 90, San Francisco 14: Luxor leads by 76 points.
Live music & performing arts. Luxor 10, San Francisco 76: San Francisco leads by 66 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Luxor 28, San Francisco 42: San Francisco leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Luxor and San Francisco.

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.

San Francisco
Best match
59match

Wins on live music and the arts and food and drink 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

San Francisco in July

22 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
13 °Csea
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). San Francisco: 1981-2010 normals, Alameda Naval Air Station (9.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLuxorSan Francisco
Official languageArabic-
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180911
Elevation89 m16 m
Main airportLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsSan Francisco International Airport (SFO)18 km from centre142 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLuxorSan Francisco
City population202,232873,965
People per km²4861,455
Museums within 10 km451
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
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. 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.