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The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple
St. Petersburg, Florida

Photos: Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Luxor or St. Petersburg, Florida?

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 St. Petersburg, Florida for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Petersburg, Florida’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, St. Petersburg, Florida 85: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 79 points.
Food & drink. Luxor 30, St. Petersburg, Florida 52: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Luxor 95, St. Petersburg, Florida 52: Luxor leads by 43 points.
Nightlife. Luxor 10, St. Petersburg, Florida 44: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 34 points.
Nature & outdoors. Luxor 32, St. Petersburg, Florida 58: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Luxor 62, St. Petersburg, Florida 55: Luxor leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Luxor 30, St. Petersburg, Florida 70: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 40 points.
Getting around. Luxor 35, St. Petersburg, Florida 33: Luxor leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Luxor 25, St. Petersburg, Florida 38: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Luxor 90, St. Petersburg, Florida 35: Luxor leads by 55 points.
Live music & performing arts. Luxor 10, St. Petersburg, Florida 42: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Luxor 28, St. Petersburg, Florida 40: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Luxor and St. Petersburg, Florida.

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.

St. Petersburg, Florida
Best match
50match

Wins on beaches 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 recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

St. Petersburg, Florida in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
197 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °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). St. Petersburg, Florida: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLuxorSt. Petersburg, Florida
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 m134 m
Main airportLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)16 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLuxorSt. Petersburg, Florida
City population202,232258,308
People per km²486725
Museums within 10 km413
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-8 months

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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.