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The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple
Castle Square and the Royal Castle, Warsaw
WarsawCastle Square and the Royal Castle

Photos: Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Warsaw by Raymond Petrik, Pexels License.

Luxor or Warsaw?

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 Warsaw for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Warsaw’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, Warsaw 12: Warsaw leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Luxor 30, Warsaw 60: Warsaw leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Luxor 95, Warsaw 70: Luxor leads by 25 points.
Nightlife. Luxor 10, Warsaw 66: Warsaw leads by 56 points.
Nature & outdoors. Luxor 32, Warsaw 47: Warsaw leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Luxor 62, Warsaw 52: Luxor leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Luxor 30, Warsaw 62: Warsaw leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Luxor 35, Warsaw 72: Warsaw leads by 37 points.
Shopping & style. Luxor 25, Warsaw 55: Warsaw leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Luxor 90, Warsaw 64: Luxor leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Luxor 10, Warsaw 63: Warsaw leads by 53 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Luxor 28, Warsaw 35: Warsaw leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Luxor and Warsaw.

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.

Warsaw
Best match
55match

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
14 hdaylight a day

Warsaw in July

25 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
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). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLuxorWarsaw
Official languageArabicPolish
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180112
Elevation89 m118 m
Main airportLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLuxorWarsaw
City population202,2321,862,402
People per km²4863,601
Museums within 10 km4117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11

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. 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.