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The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple
São Paulo Cathedral, Sao Paulo
Sao PauloSão Paulo Cathedral

Photos: Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Sao Paulo by Webysther Nunes, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Luxor or Sao Paulo?

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 Sao Paulo for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Sao Paulo’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, Sao Paulo 42: Sao Paulo leads by 36 points.
Food & drink. Luxor 30, Sao Paulo 84: Sao Paulo leads by 54 points.
Culture & sights. Luxor 95, Sao Paulo 60: Luxor leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Luxor 10, Sao Paulo 86: Sao Paulo leads by 76 points.
Nature & outdoors. Luxor 32, Sao Paulo 48: Sao Paulo leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Luxor 62, Sao Paulo 47: Luxor leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Luxor 30, Sao Paulo 52: Sao Paulo leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Luxor 35, Sao Paulo 44: Sao Paulo leads by 9 points.
Shopping & style. Luxor 25, Sao Paulo 70: Sao Paulo leads by 45 points.
Affordability. Luxor 90, Sao Paulo 62: Luxor leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Luxor 10, Sao Paulo 76: Sao Paulo leads by 66 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Luxor 28, Sao Paulo 25: Luxor leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Luxor and Sao Paulo.

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.

Sao Paulo
Best match
58match

Wins on nightlife 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
No recordsunshine a day
14 hdaylight a day

Sao Paulo in July

23 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
53 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
11 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). Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLuxorSao Paulo
Official languageArabicPortuguese
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-3
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation89 m760 m
Main airportLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre104 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureLuxorSao Paulo
City population202,23211,451,999
People per km²4867,519
Museums within 10 km490
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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.