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The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple
The Cap Spartel lighthouse among palms, Tangier
TangierThe Cap Spartel lighthouse among palms

Photos: Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Tangier by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Luxor or Tangier?

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

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

Choose Tangier for

  • beaches
  • food and drink
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Tangier’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, Tangier 50: Tangier leads by 44 points.
Food & drink. Luxor 30, Tangier 58: Tangier leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Luxor 95, Tangier 57: Luxor leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Luxor 10, Tangier 30: Tangier leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Luxor 32, Tangier 55: Tangier leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Luxor 62, Tangier 72: Tangier leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Luxor 30, Tangier 35: Tangier leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Luxor 35, Tangier 40: Tangier leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Luxor 25, Tangier 42: Tangier leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Luxor 90, Tangier 76: Luxor leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Luxor 10, Tangier 28: Tangier leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Luxor 28, Tangier 50: Tangier leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Luxor and Tangier.

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.

Tangier
Best match
49match

Wins on beaches and food and drink 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

Tangier in July

29 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
22 °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). Tangier: 1991-2020 normals, Tanger Aerodrome (9.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLuxorTangier
Official languageArabicArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation89 m56 m
Main airportLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsTangier Ibn Battuta Airport (TNG)11 km from centre50 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLuxorTangier
City population202,2321,275,428
People per km²4866,393
Museums within 10 km46
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C-3 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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.