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The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple
Gastown, Vancouver
VancouverGastown

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

Luxor or Vancouver?

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 Vancouver for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • food and drink
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Vancouver’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, Vancouver 42: Vancouver leads by 36 points.
Food & drink. Luxor 30, Vancouver 72: Vancouver leads by 42 points.
Culture & sights. Luxor 95, Vancouver 42: Luxor leads by 53 points.
Nightlife. Luxor 10, Vancouver 42: Vancouver leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Luxor 32, Vancouver 97: Vancouver leads by 65 points.
Day trips. Luxor 62, Vancouver 45: Luxor leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Luxor 30, Vancouver 72: Vancouver leads by 42 points.
Getting around. Luxor 35, Vancouver 73: Vancouver leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Luxor 25, Vancouver 55: Vancouver leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Luxor 90, Vancouver 27: Luxor leads by 63 points.
Live music & performing arts. Luxor 10, Vancouver 52: Vancouver leads by 42 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Luxor 28, Vancouver 50: Vancouver leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Luxor and Vancouver.

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.

Vancouver
Best match
56match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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

Vancouver in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
42 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
16 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). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLuxorVancouver
Official languageArabicFrench, English
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180911
Elevation89 m2 m
Main airportLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLuxorVancouver
City population202,232662,248
People per km²4865,759
Museums within 10 km426
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. 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.