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The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple
The Opera House from the water, Sydney
SydneyThe Opera House from the water

Photos: Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Sydney by Bernard Spragg, CC0.

Luxor or Sydney?

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 Sydney for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Sydney’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, Sydney 95: Sydney leads by 89 points.
Food & drink. Luxor 30, Sydney 77: Sydney leads by 47 points.
Culture & sights. Luxor 95, Sydney 60: Luxor leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Luxor 10, Sydney 60: Sydney leads by 50 points.
Nature & outdoors. Luxor 32, Sydney 85: Sydney leads by 53 points.
Day trips. Luxor 62, Sydney 50: Luxor leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Luxor 30, Sydney 75: Sydney leads by 45 points.
Getting around. Luxor 35, Sydney 75: Sydney leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Luxor 25, Sydney 68: Sydney leads by 43 points.
Affordability. Luxor 90, Sydney 22: Luxor leads by 68 points.
Live music & performing arts. Luxor 10, Sydney 73: Sydney leads by 63 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Luxor 28, Sydney 55: Sydney leads by 27 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Luxor and Sydney.

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.

Sydney
Best match
66match

Wins on beaches 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
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Sydney in July

18 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
70 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
19 °Csea
10 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). Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLuxorSydney
Official languageArabicEnglish
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180000
Elevation89 m6 m
Main airportLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLuxorSydney
City population202,2325,450,496
People per km²486449
Museums within 10 km438
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.