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The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple
Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo
TokyoShibuya Crossing

Photos: Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Tokyo by Benh LIEU SONG, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Luxor or Tokyo?

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

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

Choose Tokyo for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Tokyo’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, Tokyo 40: Tokyo leads by 34 points.
Food & drink. Luxor 30, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 68 points.
Culture & sights. Luxor 95, Tokyo 84: Luxor leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Luxor 10, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 76 points.
Nature & outdoors. Luxor 32, Tokyo 68: Tokyo leads by 36 points.
Day trips. Luxor 62, Tokyo 85: Tokyo leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Luxor 30, Tokyo 95: Tokyo leads by 65 points.
Getting around. Luxor 35, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 63 points.
Shopping & style. Luxor 25, Tokyo 99: Tokyo leads by 74 points.
Affordability. Luxor 90, Tokyo 48: Luxor leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. Luxor 10, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 76 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Luxor 28, Tokyo 78: Tokyo leads by 50 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Luxor and Tokyo.

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.

Tokyo
Best match
80match

Wins on nightlife 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

Tokyo in July

30 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
157 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
23 °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). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLuxorTokyo
Official languageArabicJapanese
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+9
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180Police 110, fire 119
Elevation89 m6 m
Main airportLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLuxorTokyo
City population202,23214,264,798
People per km²4866,501
Museums within 10 km4192
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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.