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The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple
The Arctic Cathedral, Tromso
TromsoThe Arctic Cathedral

Photos: Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Tromso by Moyan Brenn, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Luxor or Tromso?

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 Tromso for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Tromso’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, Tromso 8: Tromso leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Luxor 30, Tromso 36: Tromso leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Luxor 95, Tromso 27: Luxor leads by 68 points.
Nightlife. Luxor 10, Tromso 38: Tromso leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Luxor 32, Tromso 92: Tromso leads by 60 points.
Day trips. Luxor 62, Tromso 14: Luxor leads by 48 points.
Good for families. Luxor 30, Tromso 45: Tromso leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Luxor 35, Tromso 60: Tromso leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Luxor 25, Tromso 15: Luxor leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Luxor 90, Tromso 11: Luxor leads by 79 points.
Live music & performing arts. Luxor 10, Tromso 32: Tromso leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Luxor 28, Tromso 38: Tromso leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Luxor and Tromso.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Luxor
Best match
38match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Tromso
35match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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

Tromso in July

16 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
73 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
10 °Csea
24 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). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLuxorTromso
Official languageArabicNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation89 m20 m
Main airportLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre49 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLuxorTromso
City population202,23279,943
People per km²48632
Museums within 10 km48
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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. 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.