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The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple
The Winchester Mystery House, San Jose
San JoseThe Winchester Mystery House

Photos: Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; San Jose by Roxanna Salceda, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Luxor or San Jose?

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
  • getting around

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

Choose San Jose for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on San Jose’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 Jose 30: San Jose leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. Luxor 30, San Jose 56: San Jose leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Luxor 95, San Jose 36: Luxor leads by 59 points.
Nightlife. Luxor 10, San Jose 33: San Jose leads by 23 points.
Nature & outdoors. Luxor 32, San Jose 72: San Jose leads by 40 points.
Day trips. Luxor 62, San Jose 78: San Jose leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Luxor 30, San Jose 65: San Jose leads by 35 points.
Getting around. Luxor 35, San Jose 30: Luxor leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Luxor 25, San Jose 48: San Jose leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Luxor 90, San Jose 20: Luxor leads by 70 points.
Live music & performing arts. Luxor 10, San Jose 38: San Jose leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Luxor 28, San Jose 30: San Jose leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Luxor and San Jose.

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 Jose
Best match
45match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and families 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 Jose in July

27 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
14 °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 Jose: 1991-2020 normals, San Jose / Santa Clara Trailer Village (8.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLuxorSan Jose
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 m25 m
Main airportLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsMineta San Jose International Airport (SJC)8 km from centre38 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLuxorSan Jose
City population202,2321,013,240
People per km²4862,167
Museums within 10 km419
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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. 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.