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The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple
The cathedral above the old town, Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de CompostelaThe cathedral above the old town

Photos: Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Santiago de Compostela by Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez (Lmbuga), CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Luxor or Santiago de Compostela?

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 Santiago de Compostela for

  • food and drink
  • nightlife
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Santiago de Compostela’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, Santiago de Compostela 32: Santiago de Compostela leads by 26 points.
Food & drink. Luxor 30, Santiago de Compostela 68: Santiago de Compostela leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Luxor 95, Santiago de Compostela 70: Luxor leads by 25 points.
Nightlife. Luxor 10, Santiago de Compostela 45: Santiago de Compostela leads by 35 points.
Nature & outdoors. Luxor 32, Santiago de Compostela 62: Santiago de Compostela leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Luxor 62, Santiago de Compostela 72: Santiago de Compostela leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Luxor 30, Santiago de Compostela 42: Santiago de Compostela leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Luxor 35, Santiago de Compostela 70: Santiago de Compostela leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. Luxor 25, Santiago de Compostela 35: Santiago de Compostela leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Luxor 90, Santiago de Compostela 64: Luxor leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Luxor 10, Santiago de Compostela 40: Santiago de Compostela leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Luxor 28, Santiago de Compostela 42: Santiago de Compostela leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Luxor and Santiago de Compostela.

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.

Santiago de Compostela
Best match
54match

Wins on food and drink and nightlife 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

Santiago de Compostela in July

25 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
41 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
17 °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). Santiago de Compostela: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago / Labacolla (8.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLuxorSantiago de Compostela
Official languageArabicSpanish
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 m260 m
Main airportLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsSantiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ)10 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLuxorSantiago de Compostela
City population202,232100,965
People per km²486459
Museums within 10 km46
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
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. 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.