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The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple
Savannah City Hall and its golden dome, Savannah
SavannahSavannah City Hall and its golden dome

Photos: Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Savannah by Chris M Morris, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Luxor or Savannah?

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
  • day trips

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

Choose Savannah for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Savannah’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, Savannah 55: Savannah leads by 49 points.
Food & drink. Luxor 30, Savannah 58: Savannah leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Luxor 95, Savannah 68: Luxor leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. Luxor 10, Savannah 52: Savannah leads by 42 points.
Nature & outdoors. Luxor 32, Savannah 48: Savannah leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Luxor 62, Savannah 60: Luxor leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Luxor 30, Savannah 50: Savannah leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Luxor 35, Savannah 58: Savannah leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Luxor 25, Savannah 42: Savannah leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Luxor 90, Savannah 35: Luxor leads by 55 points.
Live music & performing arts. Luxor 10, Savannah 40: Savannah leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Luxor 28, Savannah 40: Savannah leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Luxor and Savannah.

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.

Savannah
Best match
51match

Wins on beaches 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 seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Savannah in July

34 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
144 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
14 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). Savannah: 1991-2020 normals, Savannah Airport (9.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLuxorSavannah
Official languageArabic-
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180911
Elevation89 m15 m
Main airportLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsSavannah Hilton Head International Airport (SAV)12 km from centre39 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLuxorSavannah
City population202,232147,780
People per km²486524
Museums within 10 km419
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-6 months

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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.