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The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple
The beach and the oceanfront hotels from the fishing pier, Virginia Beach
Virginia BeachThe beach and the oceanfront hotels from the fishing pier

Photos: Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Virginia Beach by SchuminWeb, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Luxor or Virginia Beach?

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
  • getting around

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

Choose Virginia Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Virginia Beach’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, Virginia Beach 77: Virginia Beach leads by 71 points.
Food & drink. Luxor 30, Virginia Beach 42: Virginia Beach leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Luxor 95, Virginia Beach 30: Luxor leads by 65 points.
Nightlife. Luxor 10, Virginia Beach 37: Virginia Beach leads by 27 points.
Nature & outdoors. Luxor 32, Virginia Beach 56: Virginia Beach leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Luxor 62, Virginia Beach 64: Virginia Beach leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Luxor 30, Virginia Beach 75: Virginia Beach leads by 45 points.
Getting around. Luxor 35, Virginia Beach 27: Luxor leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Luxor 25, Virginia Beach 32: Virginia Beach leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Luxor 90, Virginia Beach 40: Luxor leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Luxor 10, Virginia Beach 38: Virginia Beach leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Luxor 28, Virginia Beach 32: Virginia Beach leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Luxor and Virginia Beach.

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.

Virginia Beach
Best match
46match

Wins on beaches and families 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 seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Virginia Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
152 mmrain in the month
25 °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). Virginia Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Virginia Beach / Gatewood Park (5.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLuxorVirginia Beach
Official languageArabic-
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180911
Elevation89 m7 m
Main airportLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsNorfolk International Airport (ORF)20 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLuxorVirginia Beach
City population202,232459,470
People per km²486-
Museums within 10 km42
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 months

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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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.