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The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple
The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses

Photos: Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Luxor or Saint-Tropez?

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 Saint-Tropez for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Saint-Tropez’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, Saint-Tropez 82: Saint-Tropez leads by 76 points.
Food & drink. Luxor 30, Saint-Tropez 48: Saint-Tropez leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Luxor 95, Saint-Tropez 35: Luxor leads by 60 points.
Nightlife. Luxor 10, Saint-Tropez 60: Saint-Tropez leads by 50 points.
Nature & outdoors. Luxor 32, Saint-Tropez 72: Saint-Tropez leads by 40 points.
Day trips. Luxor 62, Saint-Tropez 57: Luxor leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Luxor 30, Saint-Tropez 42: Saint-Tropez leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Luxor 35, Saint-Tropez 32: Luxor leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Luxor 25, Saint-Tropez 64: Saint-Tropez leads by 39 points.
Affordability. Luxor 90, Saint-Tropez 8: Luxor leads by 82 points.
Live music & performing arts. Luxor 10, Saint-Tropez 18: Saint-Tropez leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Luxor 28, Saint-Tropez 35: Saint-Tropez leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Luxor and Saint-Tropez.

Your match

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Luxor
38match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Saint-Tropez
Best match
46match

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 recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Saint-Tropez in July

32 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
10 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
23 °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.

Saint-Tropez 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.

Saint-Tropez's sunshine is measured 62 km from the centre, at Nice.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Luxor: 1998-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Luxor (6.5 km from centre). Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLuxorSaint-Tropez
Official languageArabicFrench
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCE230 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 m0 m
Main airportLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLuxorSaint-Tropez
City population202,2323,582
People per km²486320
Museums within 10 km44
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-3 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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.