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The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple
The Warrior on a Horse, Macedonia Square, Skopje
SkopjeThe Warrior on a Horse, Macedonia Square

Photos: Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Skopje by George M. Groutas, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Luxor or Skopje?

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 Skopje for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Skopje’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 and Skopje are level on 6.
Food & drink. Luxor 30, Skopje 52: Skopje leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Luxor 95, Skopje 56: Luxor leads by 39 points.
Nightlife. Luxor 10, Skopje 42: Skopje leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Luxor 32, Skopje 70: Skopje leads by 38 points.
Day trips. Luxor 62, Skopje 56: Luxor leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Luxor 30, Skopje 35: Skopje leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Luxor 35, Skopje 45: Skopje leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Luxor 25, Skopje 40: Skopje leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Luxor 90, Skopje 80: Luxor leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Luxor 10, Skopje 38: Skopje leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Luxor 28, Skopje 27: Luxor leads by 1 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Luxor and Skopje.

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.

Skopje
Best match
46match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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
14 hdaylight a day

Skopje in July

32 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
31 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
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.

Skopje 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.

Skopje's sunshine is measured 68 km from the centre, at Stip.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Luxor: 1998-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Luxor (6.5 km from centre). Skopje: 1991-2020 (sunshine 1961-1990) normals, Skopje-Petrovec (18.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLuxorSkopje
Official languageArabicAlbanian, Macedonian
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Denar (MKD)
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 m251 m
Main airportLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsSkopje International Airport (SKP)16 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLuxorSkopje
City population202,232422,540
People per km²486739
Museums within 10 km417
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. 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.